Enid Logan

elogan@umn.edu

612-624-3598

Sociology

956 Social Sciences Building

267 19th Ave S
Minneapolis, MN 55455

Curriculum Vitae

Collegiate Affiliation

Sociology

Educational Background & Specialties

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Educational Background

B.A.: Sociology & African American Studies, Yale University, 1994
Grad Certificate: Latin American & Caribbean Studies, University of Michigan, 2001
M.A.: Sociology, University of Michigan, 1997
Ph.D.: Sociology, University of Michigan, 2005

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

Publications

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Publications

"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.
"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.
"The 1899 Cuban Marriage Law Controversy: Church, State and Empire in the Crucible of Nation." 2008. Journal of Social History 42(2):469-494.
"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.

Activities

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Activities

Professional

Member: American Sociological Association. none - none
Member: American Historical Association. none - none
Member: Latin American Studies Association. none - none
Member: Association of Black Sociologists. none - none
Member: Sociologists for Women in Society.

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.

Research

The Black Professional Middle Class: Structural and Experiential Distinctiveness
Your Great-Great Grandmother was a Cherokee: Native American Ancestry Lore Among White & Black Families in the United States
Perspectives on the 2016 Presidential Election: Race, Immigration, Gender & Religion
: 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.
American Indian Racialization & the Sociological Study of Race

Awards

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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 Michigan, 1999, 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 Research - 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

Courses

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