Margaret Abraham
Professor of sociology
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Career
From 2010 to 2014 she had been Vice President of Research and the American Sociological Association Representative of the international Sociological Association. In 2014 she was elected President of the International Sociological Association, the first feminist researcher and activist to hold the position.
She served on the Board of Directors of Sakhi for South Asian Women and the Asian Pacific Islander Coalition on HIV/AIDS
From 2008 to 2015 she was Special Adviser to the Provost for Diversity Initiatives at Hofstra University, New York.
Her research interests are in the field of gender, and she takes a feminist and intersectional perspective to sociology. Her PhD thesis was on dual ethnic identity and marginality in Indian Jews, in India and Israel.