Elizabeth A. Armstrong

Professional Title

Sherry B. Ortner Collegiate Professor of Sociology

Department(s)

Center for the Study of Higher and Postsecondary Education
College of Literature, Science, and the Arts (LSA)
Education
Institute for Social Research
Population Studies Center
Sociology
Women's & Gender Studies

About

My research focuses on the reproduction and transformation of systems of social inequality in the United States. I am interested in gender, sexuality, social class, race, and other dimensions of inequality, and the ways in which they intersect. I approach these questions as a cultural and organizational sociologist. Substantively, most of my work has focused on sexuality and/or higher education.

I joined the U-M faculty in 2009, returning to my undergraduate alma mater. I graduated from Michigan with a double major in sociology and computer science in 1988.  I received my Ph.D. from the UC-Berkeley Department of Sociology and taught at Indiana University-Bloomington from 2000-09. I spent 2007-08 at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, and 2018-19 at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS) at Stanford University.

View Prof. Armstrong's faculty profile at https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/elizabetharmstrong/
 
U-M Affiliations: Sociology, Organizational Studies, Women's and Gender Studies, Institute of Research on Women and Gender, Initiative on Ending Gender-Based Violence and Sexual Harassment, Injury Prevention Center, Population Studies Center, Center for the Study of Higher and Postsecondary Education, Center for Inequality Dynamics

Research Interests

social sciences
mixed methods
qualitative research
education
sexual harassment/gender harassment
sexuality
violence (sexual/gender/other)
ethnography