Angel Adams Parham
Associate Professor of Sociology and Senior Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture at the University of Virginia.
Dr. Angel Adams Parham is an Associate Professor of Sociology and Senior Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture at the University of Virginia. She received her B.A. in sociology at Yale University and her M.S. and Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Her research and teaching in historical sociology are inspired by classical philosophies of living and learning that emphasize the pursuit of truth, goodness, and beauty. She shares this love of history and of classical learning through the Nyansa Classical Community, an educational non-profit focused on K-12 students, which seeks to cultivate knowledge and wisdom to transform a generation.
She is the author of American Routes: Racial Palimpsests and the Transformation of Race (Oxford University Press, 2017) and, with Dr. Anika Prather, The Black Intellectual Tradition: Reading Freedom in Classical Literature (Classical Academic Press, 2022).