Karen Douglas

Karen Douglas is an Associate Professor of Sociology and Director of Graduate Studies at Sam Houston State University's College of Humanities & Social Sciences. Her research investigates immigration, race/ethnic stratification, and environmental sociology, with publications analyzing racial dimensions of immigration policies and water resource management.

Research examines bureaucratic capitalism's relationship to mass incarceration, color-blind racism in immigration policy, and theoretical frameworks for racialization processes in migration studies. Douglas employs quantitative and qualitative methods to study social inequality across environmental and immigration contexts.

Teaching includes Social Inequality, Race/Ethnic Inequality, Environmental Sociology, Sociological Theory, and graduate seminars in stratification and environmental sociology. Current work develops water resource management frameworks for transborder regions in the Southwestern United States.