I joined the Roanoke faculty in fall 2002 after spending two years at Grinnell College as a Mellon postdoctoral fellow and lecturer. I received my Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota and my B.A. from St. Olaf College. I teach Data Analysis, Introduction to Sociology, Social Movements, Political Sociology, and other sociology courses as needed in the department. I will also contribute to the department’s concentration in Information Analysis.

I am currently continuing research begun during my dissertation on why women join France’s extreme right-wing Front National and Mouvement National Republicain political parties, based on analysis of party documents, fieldwork, and interviews and correspondence conducted from 1997 to 2002. I explore the meaning women members make of their activism and the discourses on gender, family values, nationalism, anti-immigration (particularly anti-Islam following September 11, 2001), and anti-globalization. I am also doing research on the dynamic relationship between the anti-immigrant and anti-racism movements in France through an analysis of newspaper accounts of political activity from 1980 to 2002. My research intersects the areas of political sociology, race and ethnicity, gender, and the family. My other research has been international, historical, and comparative.

Introduction to Sociology (101C & 101D)
Data Analysis (352A)

Fall 2002

Introduction to Sociology (101C & 101D)
Data Analysis (352A)

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