Nicole Angotti
Associate Professor
CAS | Sociology
Nicole Angotti’s research sits at the nexus of population health and medical sociology. Her work addresses cultural, social, and institutional dimensions of health and wellbeing that produce differenc…
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(202) 885-2421
Kim Blankenship
Associate Dean of Research, CAS
CAS | Sociology
Kim M. Blankenship, PhD, is Distinguished Professor in the Department of Sociology, Founding Director of the Center on Health, Risk and Society (housed in the department of sociology), Associate Dean …
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(202) 885-6211
Molly Dondero
Associate Professor
CAS | Sociology
Molly Dondero is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology. Her research focuses on how immigration, race/ethnicity, social class, and place contribute to population-level inequality in he…
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(202) 885-1492
Felicia Henry
Assistant Professor
CAS | Sociology
Dr. Felicia A. Henry is an artivist-scholar whose research expertise includes race, ethnicity, gender, class, carceral studies, arts-based activism, critical criminology, disasters and the environment…
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Sarah Iverson
Assistant Professor
CAS | Sociology
Sarah Iverson's work is motivated by novel and enduring questions in sociology: How do people create collective meaning in institutional settings? How do these meanings inform action? What role doe…
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Bashir Mobasher
Postdoctoral Fellow
CAS | Sociology
Dr. Bashir Mobasher is a postdoctoral fellow at the American University (DC), an adjunct at the American University of Afghanistan, and an affiliate with EBS Universität. He is the President of Afghan…
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Michelle Newton-Francis
Senior Professorial Lecturer
CAS | Sociology
Dr. Newton-Francis has research interests in organizations, gender, and work. She has worked as an applied sociologist for numerous programs funded by the U.S. Departments of Justice and Defense. Rece…
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(202) 885-2485
Alexandra Parrs
Senior Professorial Lecturer
CAS | Sociology
Alexandra Parrs, PhD, is a senior professorial lecturer in the department of sociology at the American University in Washington, DC. She is a member of AU’s immigration research lab. She previously ta…
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David Reznik
Senior Professorial Lecturer
CAS | Sociology
David Reznik’s scholarship is at the nexus of contemporary social theory, ethnographic research methods, intersectional identity politics, and 21st-century popular culture/mass media. He has published…
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Salvador Vidal-Ortiz
Associate Professor
CAS | Sociology
Dr. Vidal-Ortiz's scholarship cuts across racialization, sexuality, gender, migration and religion; his work is interdisciplinary. He coedited two award winning books: …
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(202) 885-2443
Tracy Weitz
Professor
CAS | Sociology
In July 2022, I joined AU as a Professor of Sociology and Director of the Center on Health, Risk, and Society. I am also a Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress (CAP), a non-partisan polic…
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