Angel Adams Parham is an Associate Professor of Sociology at Loyola University-New Orleans. Her research addresses the intersection of identity, migration, race and national belonging.

Education

Parham received a BA in Sociology from

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in 1994, followed by an MS in Sociology from the

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in 1998. She received her PhD in Sociology from the

in 2003.

Career

Parham is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the

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and a senior fellow with the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture (IASC) where

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serves as the Executive Director. Previous to this, she was Associate Professor of Sociology at Loyola University-New Orleans. She was a member of the

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in Princeton, New Jersey in 2011-12, where she undertook research on the role of links between Louisiana and

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in relation to race. Parham co-founded and directs the Nyansa Classical Community, an after school programme aimed at enabling African-American students of low-income and disadvantaged families in

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. The programme focuses on reading from Classical mythology, Greek and Roman texts, and Biblical stories, and is supported by the

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and

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. Her 2017 monograph ''American Routes: Racial Palimpsests and the Transformation of Race'' was the co-winner of the 2018 American Sociological Association's Barrington Moore Book Award in Comparative and Historical Sociology, the co-winner of the 2018 Social Science History Association's Allan Sharlin Memorial Book Award and received an Honorable Mention for the 2018

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's Thomas and Znaniecki Distinguished Book Award for International Migration. She coauthored ''The Black Intellectual Tradition: Reading Freedom in Classical Literature'' published by

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in 2022.

Selected publications

*Parham, Angel Adams. "Diaspora, community and communication: Internet use in transnational Haiti." ''Global Networks'' 4.2 (2004): 199-217. *Parham, Angel Adams. "Internet, place, and public sphere in diaspora communities." ''Diaspora: A Journal of Transnational Studies'' 14.2 (2005): 349-380. *Parham, Angel Adams. "Race, memory and family history." ''Social identities'' 14.1 (2008): 13-32. *Parham, Angel Adams. ''American routes: Racial palimpsests and the transformation of race''. Oxford University Press, 2017.

References

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