Chrys Ingraham
Professor Chrys Ingraham holds a Ph.D. in Sociology, a Masters in
Public Administration, and Graduate Certification in Women's Studies
from the Maxwell School at Syracuse University. She has taught at
Syracuse University, University at Albany, LeMoyne College, and Ithaca
College before coming to Russell Sage College in 1993. Professor
Ingraham teaches in the Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice in
the Division of Social and Global Studies. She specializes in theory
and social inequality, teaching Sociological Theory; Race and
Ethnicity; Class, Power, and Privilege, Sociology of Gender, and Social
Movements. Professor Ingraham co-directs the Helen M.Upton Center for
Women's Studies and teaches Introduction to Women's Studies. She is
also co-founder and co-coordinator of the Allies Center for the Study
of Difference and Conflict for the Sage Colleges. The Allies Center
sponsors the annual Multicultural Allies Dinner, the Allies Choir, the
RSC Speaker Series, and the new Allies Conflict Mediation and Education
Center. Dr. Ingraham is the co-author of: Materialist Feminism: A
Reader in Class, Difference, and Women's Lives with Rosemary Hennessy
(University at Albany). This anthology will be available from Routledge
Press in August 1997. Professor Ingraham is also written: White
Weddings: The Heterosexual Imaginary in Popular Culture to be published
by Routledge in Summer 1998. A critical sociologist, Professor Ingraham
has published articles in journals such as Sociological Theory and The
International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy. She has given a
number of presentations and workshops on issues of difference and, with
Tonia Blackwell, Director of Multicultural Affairs, is a featured
speaker and workshop facilitator for the Campus Action Speakers'
Bureau.