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Dr. Elaine B. Douglas-Harrison

Visiting Faculty
Teaching Area(s)
Dual Language
Spanish
Education
PhD, Sociology, City University of New York
MA, City University of New York
BA, University of the West Indies
Contact
618.374.5464
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"My parents and several of my mother's sisters were teachers. I came to see the profession as a very noble and rewarding calling."

Dr. Elaine Douglas-Harrison earned translation certificates in French and Spanish from Georgetown University and the United Nations. Her focus in sociology is on immigration and gender. She has lived and worked around the world, including in Bolivia, Nicaragua, Cambodia, and several countries in Africa. Douglas-Harrison has also served as a guest editor for Wadabagei: A Journal of the Caribbean, published by Medgar Evers College in New York.

Scholarly Interests

  • Immigration
  • Gender
  • Editing
  • Foreign languages and cultures

Contributions to Field

  • Traveled several times on missions to Africa
  • Spent a year in Cambodia on a peacekeeping mission that included living with a Cambodian family, manning a polling station, and counting votes
  • Worked on women's issues for the United Nations Development Programme

Publications and Presentations

  • "When Wives Migrate and Leave Husbands Behind: A Jamaican Marriage Pattern," doctoral dissertation, 2014.
  • "Wife Battery: Prevention Better Than Cure," master's thesis, 1994.
  • "The Girl Child," Routledge International Encyclopedia of Women: Global Women's Issues and Knowledge, 2000.
CV: 
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