Dr. Connie Oxford

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Connie Oxford received her Ph.D. in Sociology and Women’s Studies Certificate from the University of Pittsburgh in 2006. She has two M.A. degrees from the University of Memphis, one in sociology and one in political science, and a B.A. in political science from the University of Georgia. Her master’s thesis explored how Somali refugee women were adjusting to their new gender, race, and class identities after being resettled in Memphis, Tennessee. Her dissertation research on gender-based asylum in the United States was an ethnographic study of female migrants with persecution claims such as female circumcision, domestic violence, rape, coercive family planning, forced marriage, and honor killings. Her current research project focuses on the immigration reform movement in the United States. This project examines how gender, race, and class inform immigration reform activists’ understanding of citizenship.

Dr. Oxford teaches Introduction to Gender and Women’s Studies; Gender, Sexuality, and Popular Culture; Gender and Human Rights; Gender and Religion; LGBTQ Studies; Men and Masculinities; and Feminist Studies: Application and Integration.

• Education
  • Ph.D. in Sociology and Women’s Studies Certificate, University of Pittsburgh
  • M.A. in Sociology, University of Memphis
  • M.A. in Political Science, University of Memphis
  • B.A. in Political Science, University of Georgia
• Teaching Areas
  • Introduction to Gender and Women’s Studies
  • Gender, Sexuality, and Popular Culture
  • Gender and Religion
  • Gender and Human Rights
  • LGBTQ Studies
  • Men & Masculinities
  • Feminist Studies: Application and Integration
• Research Areas
  • Immigration reform movement in the United States
  • Gender-based asylum in the United States
• Recent Publications

  • Oxford, C. (2024). “Using Qualitative Mixed Methods in Migration Studies: A Case of Asylum Seekers Fleeing Gender-Based Persecution,” pp. 245-257 in Handbook of Research Methods in Migration. Second Edition. William Allen and Carlos Vargos-Silva (eds.) Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd. https://www.e-elgar.com/shop/usd/handbook-of-research-methods-in-migration-9781800378025.html

  • Oxford, C. (2024). “Legal Interpretations of Trauma: The U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals and Gender-Based Asylum Claims,” Trauma Care, Vol 4: 120-147. https://www.mdpi.com/2673-866X/4/2/11
  • Oxford, C. (2023). “The Gory Details: Asylum, Sexual Assault, and Traumatic Memory” Sexes. Special Issue: “Exclusive Papers Collection of the Editorial Board of Sexes,” Vol, No. 2: 188-221. https://www.mdpi.com/2411-5118/4/2/15
  • Oxford, C. (2017)“Coercive Population Control and Asylum in the U.S.,” Social Sciences. Special Issue: “Women, Gender, and Politics: An International Overview,” Vol 6, No. 4: 137-166. https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0760/6/4/137
  • Oxford, C. (2016).“‘It’s Like You Are a Criminal’: Asylum Seekers and Immigrant Detention,” pp. 107-121, in The Immigrant Other: Lived Experiences in a Transnational World. Rich Furman, Alissa Ackerman and Greg Lamphear (eds.). New York: Columbia University Press. http://cup.columbia.edu/book/the-immigrant-other/9780231171816
  • Oxford, C. (2015). “Qualifying Relatives: Immigration Policies and Family De-Unification,” pp. 186-197, in Living Together, Living Apart: Mixed Status Families and US Immigration Policy. April Schueths, Jodie Lawston (eds.). Tacoma, Washington: University of Washington Press. https://uwapress.uw.edu/book/9780295995304/living-together-living-apart/
  • Oxford, C. (2014). “Where are the Women?,” pp. 157-174, in Efrat Arbel, Catherine Dauvergne and Jenni Millbank (eds.) Gender in Refugee Law: From the Margins to the Centre. New York: Routledge. https://www.routledge.com/Gender-in-Refugee-Law-From-the-Margins-to-the-Centre/Arbel-Dauvergne-Millbank/p/book/9781138670419