Faculty Profiles
Angela Stroud
Title: Assistant Professor of Sociology and Social Justice
Office Location: Wheeler 311
Phone:715-682-1327
Email: astroud@northland.edu
Education
- Ph.D. Sociology, The University of Texas, Austin, TX
- M.A. Sociology, The University of Texas, Austin, TX
- B.A. Sociology and Women's Studies, Southwestern University, Georgetown, TX
Profile
I grew up in South Texas, ten miles from Reynosa, Mexico, and seventy miles from the gulf. When I was young, my family and I would cross the border into Mexico for shopping or to go to restaurants, and we would witness profound poverty. Of course the U.S. side had a great deal of inequality too, and it didn't take a sociology degree to see that race and social class were deeply tied. As I grew older, I became aware of how other boundaries-around gender and sexuality-are also tied to power. As an undergraduate, at a college much like Northland, I encountered sociology courses taught by engaged, dynamic, and passionate professors. I began to develop a language for understanding our social world, and started to see that race, class, and gender are intertwined concepts that are profoundly influential in our lives. I soon knew what I wanted to spend the rest of my life doing: trying to understand our world as a sociologist and teaching sociology to college students.
I teach courses in the sociology of gender, human rights and social justice, race and racism, and the sociology of culture. My research focuses on how meanings around whiteness and masculinity circulate in American culture. I'm currently working on a book that examines how race, class, and gender shape people's desire to obtain permits to carry concealed firearms in public places. In my research and my teaching, I am centrally concerned with illuminating how inequality and privilege emerge at the intersections of race, class, and gender.