Chrys Ingraham

Professor Chrys Ingraham holds a Ph.D. in Sociology, a Masters in Public Administration, and Graduate Certification in Women's Studies from the Maxwell School at Syracuse University. She has taught at Syracuse University, University at Albany, LeMoyne College, and Ithaca College before coming to Russell Sage College in 1993. Professor Ingraham teaches in the Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice in the Division of Social and Global Studies. She specializes in theory and social inequality, teaching Sociological Theory; Race and Ethnicity; Class, Power, and Privilege, Sociology of Gender, and Social Movements. Professor Ingraham co-directs the Helen M.Upton Center for Women's Studies and teaches Introduction to Women's Studies. She is also co-founder and co-coordinator of the Allies Center for the Study of Difference and Conflict for the Sage Colleges. The Allies Center sponsors the annual Multicultural Allies Dinner, the Allies Choir, the RSC Speaker Series, and the new Allies Conflict Mediation and Education Center. Dr. Ingraham is the co-author of: Materialist Feminism: A Reader in Class, Difference, and Women's Lives with Rosemary Hennessy (University at Albany). This anthology will be available from Routledge Press in August 1997. Professor Ingraham is also written: White Weddings: The Heterosexual Imaginary in Popular Culture to be published by Routledge in Summer 1998. A critical sociologist, Professor Ingraham has published articles in journals such as Sociological Theory and The International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy. She has given a number of presentations and workshops on issues of difference and, with Tonia Blackwell, Director of Multicultural Affairs, is a featured speaker and workshop facilitator for the Campus Action Speakers' Bureau.