{{Short description|Professor of sociology}} {{Use dmy dates|date=July 2018}} {{Use Indian English|date=July 2018}} right|thumb|188px|Margaret Abraham at the University of Buenos Aires in 2012. '''Margaret Abraham''' is a professor of sociology at Hofstra University and served as the 18th president (2014–2018) of the International Sociological Association.<ref name="presidents">{{cite web|url=http://www.isa-sociology.org/about/presidents/ |title=ISA Presidents |publisher=International Sociological Association|access-date=2012-07-25}}</ref> She is known for her research regarding gender issues, specifically concerning women, and the ways gender issues are connected to concepts such as globalization, societal customs and norms, and violent behavior.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.isa-sociology.org/about/ec.htm |title=ISA - International Sociological Association |publisher=Isa-sociology.org |access-date=2017-12-17}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.isa-sociology.org/cv/cv_margaret_abraham.htm |title=ISA – CV Margaret Abraham |publisher=Isa-sociology.org |access-date=2014-08-18}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.hofstra.edu/faculty/fac_profiles.cfm?id=3 |title=Margaret Abraham – Faculty Profile – Hofstra University |publisher=Hofstra.edu |access-date=2017-12-17}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.margaretabrahamonline.com/about/ |title=Biography — Margaret Abraham |publisher=Margaretabrahamonline.com |access-date=2017-12-14}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|author=Barbara Crossette |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/10/16/nyregion/amid-isolation-finally-friend-movement-confront-hidden-abuse-immigrant-families.html |title=Amid the Isolation, Finally, a Friend; A Movement to Confront Hidden Abuse in Immigrant Families - New York Times |work=Nytimes.com |date=2000-10-16 |access-date=2014-08-18}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|author=UC Berkeley Events |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EyXowjy6L-g |title=Journeys Through Sociology: Margaret Abraham |publisher=YouTube |date=2012-02-22 |access-date=2014-08-18}}</ref>
==Career== From 2010 to 2014 she had been Vice President of Research and the American Sociological Association Representative of the international Sociological Association.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.hofstra.edu/faculty/fac_profiles.cfm?id=3|title = Faculty Profile | Hofstra | New York}}</ref> In 2014 she was elected President of the International Sociological Association, the first feminist researcher and activist to hold the position.<ref name=":0">{{Cite journal|last1=Aulenbacher|first1=Brigitte|last2=Riegraf|first2=Birgit|date=2016|title=Violence against Women as an Issue of Human Rights Justice and Democracy An Interview with Margaret Abraham|url=https://www.degruyter.com/downloadpdf/j/fs.2016.34.issue-2/fs-2016-0007/fs-2016-0007.pdf|journal=Feministische Studien|volume=34|issue=2|pages=272–283|doi=10.1515/fs-2016-0007|s2cid=152131502|via=Walter de Gruyter GmbH}}</ref>
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.<ref>{{cite journal |url=http://app.insoso.org/ISS_journal/Repository/Interview.pdf |title=Conversation: Margaret Abraham in conversation with Labinot Kunushevci |journal=Explorations, ISS e-journal |volume=1 |issue=2 |date=October 2017 |pages=108–119 |publisher=Indian Sociological Society}}</ref>
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.<ref name=":0" />
== Selected publications ==
* {{Cite journal|last1=Abraham|first1=Margaret|last2=Maney|first2=Gregory|date=2012|title=Transforming place and belonging through action research, community practice, and public policy: Comparing responses to NIMBYism|journal=Current Sociology|volume=60|issue=2|pages=178–201|doi=10.1177/0011392111429220|s2cid=143866320}} * {{Cite journal|last1=Abraham|first1=Margaret|last2=Purkayastha|first2=Bandana|date=2012|title=Making a Difference: Linking Research and Action in Practice, Pedagogy and Policy for Social Justice|journal=Current Sociology, Monograph Series|volume=60}} * {{Cite book|title=Contours of Citizenship: Women, Diversity and Practices of Citizenship|last1=Abraham|first1=Margaret|last2=Ngan-ling Chow|first2=Esther|last3=Martou-Alipranti|first3=Laura|last4=Tastsoglou|first4=Evangelia|publisher=Ashgate|year=2010|isbn=9780754677796|location=Farnham|author-link2=Esther Ngan-ling Chow}} * {{Cite journal|last=Abraham|first=Margaret|date=2008|title=Globalization and the Call Center Industry|journal=International Sociology|volume=23|issue=2|pages=197–210|doi=10.1177/0268580907086376|s2cid=145676781}} * {{Cite book|title=Speaking the Unspeakable: Marital Violence among South Asians in the U.S.|url=https://archive.org/details/speakingunspeaka0000abra|url-access=registration|last=Abraham|first=Margaret|publisher=Rutgers University Press|year=2000|isbn=9780813527932|location=New Jersey}}
==External links== *{{Cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VU3quSNd0-4 |title=Margaret ABRAHAM, Presidential Address, ISA World Congress of Sociology, Toronto, Canada, 2018 |work=Isasociotube |date=2018-10-04 |access-date=2018-10-06}} *{{Cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/13/opinion/asylum-domestic-gang-violence.html |title=Opinion - Fleeing Domestic or Gang Violence? No Asylum for You |last=Abraham |first=Margaret |date=2018-06-13 |work=New York Times |access-date=2018-10-06 |language=en}}
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