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Sarah Prior

Associate Professor | Undergraduate Program Director

Berkey Hall, 460A

(517) 353-4760

priorsar@msu.edu

Curriculum Vitae

Personal Website

Area of Expertise

Race Class Gender and Sexuality

Biography

Sarah Prior is an Associate Professor and Undergraduate Program Director in the Department of Sociology at Michigan State University. She is also the Director of the Bailey Scholars Program and a Core Associated Faculty/Staff at the Center for Gender in Global Context. Dr. Prior was the recipient of MSU's 2025-2026 Donald F. Koch Award for Quality in Undergraduate Teaching and the 2024-2025 University Undergraduate Arts and Research Forum (UURAF) Mentor of the Year award. A sociologist and just

Education

PhD Arizona State University 2012

MA Northern Arizona University 2008

BA Gonzaga University 2004

Publications

Prior, S., B. de Heer, and M. Maas. (2023). “Navigating Structural Inequalities of Mothering in the Academy during COVID-19” J.M. Ryan (ed). Pandemic Pedagogies: Teaching and Learning during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Prior, S. and B. de Heer. (2022). Campus Sexual Violence: A State of Institutionalized Sexual Terrorism. Routledge.

Prior, S., and B. de Heer. (2021). Everyday Terrorism : Campus sexual violence and the neoliberal university. Sociology Compass. https://doi.org/10.1111/soc4.12915

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