Associate Professor
University of Virginia
Angel Adams Parham is an associate professor of sociology at the University of Virginia. She is also a senior fellow at the Institute of Advanced Studies in Culture and co-founder and executive director of Nyansa Classical Community. Her research is in the historical and comparative-historical sociology of race. She is the author of American Routes: Racial Palimpsests and the Transformation of Race (Oxford, 2017) which examines changes in race and racialization in New Orleans under the French, Spanish and Anglo-American administrations.
Professor Parham is active in public-facing teaching and scholarship, where she provides training for K-12 educators who want to better integrate Black writers and Black history into their teaching. She earned a B.A. in sociology at Yale University and M.S. and Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She has been a member of the School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, as well as the recipient of a Fulbright grant.
On campus January 22-26, 2025