Adia Harvey Wingfield | |
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Known for | Research on race's impact on professionals and racializing the glass escalator |
Awards | 2018 Public Understanding of Sociology Award from the American Sociological Association |
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Discipline | Sociology |
Institutions | Washington University in St. Louis Georgia State University Hollins University |
Website | sociology |
Adia Harvey Wingfield is a professor of sociology at Washington University in St. Louis and the 2018 President of Sociologists for Women in Society. She is the author of several books,including No More Invisible Man:Race and Gender in Men's Work,and articles in peer-reviewed journals including Social Problems , Gender &Society ,and Ethnic and Racial Studies . She has lectured internationally on her research. [1]
Adia Harvey Wingfield is Professor of Sociology and a Faculty Fellow in the Office of the Provost at Washington University in St. Louis, [2] where her research interests are in the persistence of intersectional racial and gender inequalities in professional occupations, [3] in particular the challenges facing black men in workplaces where they are in the minority. [4] [5]
She attended Spelman College as an undergraduate,studying English. [6] Wingfield received her M.A. and Ph.D. in sociology from Johns Hopkins University. [7]
After receiving her Ph.D.,she served as an assistant professor of sociology at Hollins University from 2004 to 2006. In 2006,she joined the sociology department at Georgia State University,where she served as an assistant professor of sociology until 2012. In 2011,she was a visiting professor of sociology at Rikkyo University in Tokyo,Japan. In 2012,she received tenure and became an associate professor of sociology at Georgia State. In 2015,Wingfield moved to St. Louis to become one of three professors that re-established the sociology department at Washington University in St. Louis,along with David Cunningham,Ku Klux Klan scholar and former chair of the sociology department at Brandeis University,and Jake Rosenfeld,scholar on labor and unions and former sociology professor at University of Washington. [8]
In 2018,Wingfield served as President of Sociologists for Women in Society a national organization that encourages feminist research and teaching in sociology. [7]
She served as the President of the Southern Sociological Society from 2020 to 2021. [9]
She is a founding member of the Sociology Action Network Advisory Board and is serving from 2018 to 2020 as a member of the American Sociological Association Program Committee. [9]
Wingfield is a contributing writer for Harvard Business Review,Slate, [15] The Atlantic,Fortune, and Inside Higher Ed, and she has been quoted on NPR and in newspapers such as The New York Times,The Guardian,the Chicago Sun Times,Pacific Standard,and the Christian Science Monitor. [16]
Wingfield analyzed the racial components of the popular sociological term "glass escalator" in her 2009 article,"Racializing the Glass Escalator:Reconsidering Men's Experiences with Women's Work" which she published in the journal,Gender &Society. [9] Her article is widely cited and acclaimed.
Wingfield's father,William B. Harvey,Doctor of Education,was also an academic,and her mother was a K-12 educator. [6]
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