Alexandra Parrs Senior Professorial Lecturer Sociology
- Degrees
- PhD in sociology, University Paris 7 Denis Diderot, Paris, France
- Languages Spoken
- French, English, Spanish, Portuguese, very basic Burmese and Arabic
- Bio
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Alexandra Parrs, PhD, is a senior professorial lecturer in the department of sociology at the ¹ú²úСßÏÅ® in Washington, DC. She is a member of AU’s immigration research lab. She previously taught at the ¹ú²úСßÏÅ® in Brussels, University Rene Descartes Paris V (Sorbonne), and the ¹ú²úСßÏÅ® in Cairo where she taught for the sociology department and the Center for Migration and Refugees Studies. She was a research associate at the Center for Migration and Intercultural Studies (CeMIS), at Antwerp University.
Her research focuses on gender and refuge, ethnic and religious minorities’ identity construction and diasporic practices.
Dr. Parrs spent three years in Namibia, where she worked with the Ju/’hoansi communities of northern Namibia on educational and cultural projects. She has also lived and taught in Burma and the Sultanate of Oman.
- For the Media
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Teaching
Fall 2024
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SOCY-215 Critical Social Thought
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SOCY-215 Critical Social Thought
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SOCY-215 Critical Social Thought
Spring 2025
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SOCY-210 Power, Privilege & Inequality
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SOCY-215 Critical Social Thought
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SOCY-215 Critical Social Thought