Enid Logan

Contact Me

elogan@umn.edu
612-624-3598

Sociology
956 SocSci Building

267 19th Ave South

Affiliations

• Sociology
• African American & African Studies

Educational Background & Specialties

Educational Background

• Ph.D.: University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 2005.
• Grad Certificate: Latin American & Caribbean Studies, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 2001.
• M.A.: Sociology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 1997.
• B.A.: Sociology & African American Studies, Yale University, New Haven, CT, 1994.

Curriculum Vitae

Specialties

• Blackness & Indigeneity
• Blackness in the Americas
• Contemporary U.S Race Relations
• Race and the Body
• Race and Electoral Politics
• Blacks and Social Class
• Afro-Latin America

Courses Taught

• Soc 1001 - Introduction of Sociology
• Soc 3003 - Social Problems
• Soc 3211W - Race & Racialization
• Soc 3251W - Race, Class & Gender
• Soc 8211 - Race Relations Theory

Research & Professional Activities

Professional Activities

• Member: American Sociological Association
• Member: American Historical Association
• Member: Latin American Studies Association
• Member: Association of Black Sociologists
• Member: Sociologists for Women in Society

Research

• Your Great-Great Grandmother was a Cherokee: Native American Ancestry Lore Among White & Black Families in the United States :
• American Indian Racialization & the Sociological Study of Race:
• Perspectives on the 2016 Presidential Election: Race, Immigration, Gender & Religion :
• The Black Professional Middle Class: Structural and Experiential Distinctiveness:
• Towards a Sociology of Race and the Body
• Configuring the First Black President: Embodied Dimensions of the New Politics of Race
• Crack Babies & Meth Moms: Bodies at the Intersections of Science, Medicine, Gender & Race

Outreach

• Invited Speaker: St Cloud State University. Lecture Series on Race and Gender,
• Invited Contributor: Social Science Research Council. "From King to Obama: Race in America",
• Keynote Speaker: African-American Academic Achievement Awards. Central High School, St. Paul MN,

Publications

• "Anger Management: Trump and Right-Wing Masculinity." 2016. Journal of the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce 162(5566):27-29.
• "Barack Obama: The New Politics of Race, and Classed Constructions of Racial Blackness." 2014. The Sociological Quarterly 55:653-682.
• "Let Herman Be Herman: Republican Presidential Candidate Herman Cain and the Utility of Blackness for the Political Right." 2013. Pp. 161-170 in The Social Side of Politics. Edited by Douglas Hartmann and Chris Uggen. NY: W. W. Norton.
• “At This Defining Moment”: Barack Obama's Presidential Candidacy and the New Politics of Race. 2011. NY: New York University Press.
• "Each Sheep with Its Mate: Marking Race and Legitimacy in Cuban Ecclesiastical Archives, 1890-1940." 2010. Nieuwe West-Indische Gids (The New West Indian Guide) 84(1/2):5-39.
• "The 1899 Cuban Marriage Law Controversy: Church, State and Empire in the Crucible of Nation." 2008. Journal of Social History 42(2):469-494.
• "Conspirators, Pawns, Patriots and Brothers: Race and Politics in Western Cuba 1906–1909." 2001. Pp. 3-51 in Political Power and Social Theory (Political Power and Social Theory Book Series, Vol. 14). Edited by Diane E. Davis. UK: Emerald Group.
• "El apóstol y el comandante en jefe: Racial Discourses and Practices in Cuba, 1890-1999.” 1999. Pp. 195-213 in The Global Color Line: Racial and Ethnic Inequality and Struggle from a Global Perspective. Edited by Joe Feagin and Pinar J. Batur-VanderLippe. CT: JAI Press.

Awards

• Latin American Studies Library Travel Grant, Center for Latin American Studies, University of Florida 2002
• Student Academic Multicultural Initiatives Grant, Office of the Vice President, University of Michigan1999, 2002
• Sims Award. ($5000) School of Social Work, University of Michigan, 1996
• Phi Beta Kappa, 1993
• Joseph H. Fitchter Award for Research on Women, Gender & Religion 2002
• Magna Cum Laude, Yale University, 1994
• D'Arms Travel Award for Humanities Research, University of Michigan 2000
• International Predissertation Fellowship , Social Science Resea - 1998-1999
• Constant H. Jacquet Award for Research on Religion 2002
• President’s Faculty Multicultural Research Award, University of Minnesota, 2008 - 2009
• McKnight Research Fellowship. University of Minnesota 2006