Publications and Research
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
10-29-2017
Abstract
“When I went to college at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, I became interested in sociology because it addressed issues of family and class dynamics and the issues that low-income working-class families struggle with. I avoided the racial element of it at first because my family and I had always been targeted as being among the few people of color in that community, and there is a kind of shame involved with that.”
This is how Dr. Angie Beeman explains how she came to be a sociologist. A native of Somerset, Pennsylvania, she went on to obtain a doctorate at the University of Connecticut and is now an associate professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the Weissman School of Arts and Sciences at Baruch College/CUNY.