Alexandra Parrs Sr Professorial Lecturer Department of Sociology

Degrees: PhD in sociology, University Paris 7 Denis Diderot, Paris, France
Languages Spoken: French, English, Spanish, Portuguese, very basic Burmese and Arabic
Bio: Alexandra Parrs, is a French/American Sociologist with a Ph.D. from Paris Diderot University. As an academic, she taught in Burma, the Sultanate of Oman, Egypt, Brussels, Washington, and Paris. Much of her work focused on marginalized communities, both as a researcher and an educator with Dom and Nubian communities in Cairo and refugees in Cairo, Rangoon, and Brussels.
Dr Parrs spent three years in Namibia, where she worked with the Ju/’hoansi communities of northern Namibia on educational and cultural projects.

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