Mignon R. Moore
Ann Whitney Olin Professor of Sociology
Department
Sociology
Office
332B Milbank Hall
On sabbatical AY22-23
Contact
mmoore@barnard.edu
CV
Mignon R. Moore's CV, August 2022
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Mignon R. Moore is the Ann?Whitney Olin Professor of Sociology at Barnard College. She has research and teaching interests in the sociology of family, qualitative methods, and the intersections of race, gender, sexuality, and aging. Although her work spans various age cohorts, socioeconomic categories, social environments and methodological frameworks, it is united in its purpose to challenge those assumptions and paradigms drawn from the experiences of dominant racial and socioeconomic groups that cannot explain processes and outcomes for people who occupy alternative structural positions in society. She analyses race, gender, class, and sexuality not just as identity statuses but as structural locations that influence individual life chances and the ways individuals experience their social worlds.
Professor Moore’s first book, Invisible Families: Gay Identities, Relationships and Motherhood among Black Women (2011 California Press) examined the intersection of race with sexual orientation for family-building and lesbian identity among African-American women. Her current research includes a new book project, In the Shadow of Sexuality: Social Histories of African American Lesbian and Gay Elders, 1950-1979 (University of California). This work builds on her prior training as a qualitative sociologist of racial and sexual minority populations while incorporating new archival methods into her repertoire of research tools, to construct a sociocultural history of Black sexual minority women. She has published on such topics as LGBT-parent families, adolescent sexual debut and pregnancy, intersectionality, research methods on hard-to-reach populations, and processes of aging and health for racial and ethnic minority seniors.?
Professor Moore was the 2021 President of?Sociologists for Women in Society?and is the incoming Vice President of the?American Sociological Association. During the 2022-23 academic year she will be in residence as a Visiting Researcher at the?Russell Sage Foundation.
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Ph.D. University of Chicago Department of Sociology (1998)
A.M. University of Chicago Department of Sociology (1994)
B.A. Columbia University Department of Sociology (1992)
Race
Family
LGBTQ Populations
Gender
Aging
Qualitative Research Methods
Sociology of African American Life
Advanced Topics in Race & Ethnicity
Sociology of Gender
Advanced Topics in Gender & Sexuality
Gender and Inequality in Families
Race, Gender and Class
Eastern Sociological Society 2019 Robin L. Williams Lecturer
National Institutes of Health Research Supplement to Promote Diversity in Health-Related Research
Russell Sage Foundation Visiting Scholar
Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship
Woodrow Wilson Foundation Faculty Career Enhancement Award
Human Rights Campaign Award for LGBT Research on Racial Minorities
Columbia College Black Alumni Council Heritage Award
Columbia College Women Alumna Achievement Award
American Sociological Association
Sociologists for Women in Society
Association of Black Sociologists
Society for the Study of Social Problems
Council on Contemporary Families
Seehttps://www.mignonmoore.com
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A Feminist’s Work
In celebration of 2022’s Women’s History Month (March), read about the work of 22 Barnard community members who champion feminist and gender issues.
March 7, 2022
Professor Mignon R. Moore Publishes a Book Chapter in ‘Black Feminist Sociology: Perspectives and Praxis’
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November 19, 2021
Professor Mignon R. Moore Elected as Vice President of the American Sociological Association (ASA)
June 3, 2021
Prof. Mignon Moore Elected President of Sociologists for Women in Society
December 9, 2019