Alexandra Parrs Senior Professorial Lecturer Sociology

Degrees: PhD in sociology, University Paris 7 Denis Diderot, Paris, France
Languages Spoken: French, English, Spanish, Portuguese, very basic Burmese and Arabic
Bio: Alexandra Parrs, PhD, is a senior professorial lecturer in the department of sociology at the American University in Washington, DC. She is a member of AU’s immigration research lab. She previously taught at the American University in Brussels, University Rene Descartes Paris V (Sorbonne), and the American University in Cairo where she taught for the sociology department and the Center for Migration and Refugees Studies. She was a research associate at the Center for Migration and Intercultural Studies (CeMIS), at Antwerp University.
Her research focuses on gender and refuge, ethnic and religious minorities’ identity construction and diasporic practices.
Dr. Parrs spent three years in Namibia, where she worked with the Ju/’hoansi communities of northern Namibia on educational and cultural projects. She has also lived and taught in Burma and the Sultanate of Oman.

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