Chrys Ingraham | |
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Born | October 29, 1947 |
Died | May 7, 2024 76) | (aged
Academic background | |
Alma mater | Syracuse University |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Sociologist |
Main interests | Critical heterosexual studies,queer theory,historical sociology,astrosociology,women's studies |
Chrys Ingraham is Professor of Sociology at Purchase College of the State University of New York. [1]
Dr. Ingraham (b.1947) is a native of New York State where she worked for 12 years at US Air and co-owned a feminist bookstore before returning to school at Onondaga Community College. She transferred to Syracuse University's Maxwell School where she graduated with a Masters in Public Administration (1984),Graduate Certification in Women's Studies and a PhD in Sociology (1992). Her dissertation research addressed how the Comstock Law (1872) allowed for the censorship and suppression of feminist thought in the 19th century US. She has taught at a variety of colleges and universities,including Syracuse University,Ithaca College,Skidmore College,Smith College,Russell Sage College,SUNY Albany,and was Professor of Sociology at the State University of New York at Purchase. [2] [3] She was diagnosed with metastatic ovarian cancer and treatment began in 2020,but passed away in 2024. [4]
Ingraham served as visiting professor at Ithaca College prior to receiving tenure and promotion to full professor at Russell Sage College where she directed the Helen M Upton Center for Women's Studies and co-founded (with Tonia Blackwell) the Allies Center for the Study of Difference and Conflict. She later co-founded (with Dr Eileen Brownell) their Management and Social Responsibility program. In 2007,she moved to SUNY Purchase to rebuild the Sociology program and later assisted in the creation of a Latin American Studies major. Ingraham served as Professor of Sociology at Purchase College.
Ingraham was a guest speaker for the film Wedding Advice by Karen Sosnoski and Fred Zeytoojian,2002. [5] Ingraham co-ran an 'in conversation' series with Debbie Hedberg at her YouTube channel,https://www.youtube.com/c/FreebirdSpirit. Their 30+ conversations are titled "Love is the Wisdom behind Awakening" and focus on current issues and psychic medium contributions.
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