Carmel E. Price
Carmel E. Price
Carmel Price is an Associate Professor of Sociology and an Affiliate Faculty of the Center for Arab American Studies and the Women and Gender Studies programs at the University of Michigan - Dearborn.
Carmel Price is an Associate Professor of Sociology and an Affiliate Faculty of the Center for Arab American Studies and the Women and Gender Studies programs at the University of Michigan - Dearborn.
Carmel's path to a career in academics evolved organically; it was an unconventional path that shaped her as a scholar and a teacher. In May 2000, she graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with a BA in Elementary Education and Psychology. With her K-6 teaching license in hand, she worked as a third-grade teacher in rural North Carolina before joining AmeriCorps and the National AIDS Fund for two years of service, respectively. After AmeriCorps, she moved to New Orleans where she studied at Tulane University School of Social Work, graduating with a MSW in December 2003. Carmel then worked as a licensed social worker (GSW, Louisiana) for two years, primarily in the area of gender-based violence, before beginning her PhD at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville. She graduated from Tennessee with a PhD in (environmental) Sociology in August 2011, under the direction of Dr. Stephanie Bohon. Her unique background strongly influences her as an academic. Her pedagogical training from the University of North Carolina has guided her in the classroom and her social work experiences have helped her conduct meaningful, community-based research.
Carmel's path to a career in academics evolved organically; it was an unconventional path that shaped her as a scholar and a teacher. In May 2000, she graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with a BA in Elementary Education and Psychology. With her K-6 teaching license in hand, she worked as a third-grade teacher in rural North Carolina before joining AmeriCorps and the National AIDS Fund for two years of service, respectively. After AmeriCorps, she moved to New Orleans where she studied at Tulane University School of Social Work, graduating with a MSW in December 2003. Carmel then worked as a licensed social worker (GSW, Louisiana) for two years, primarily in the area of gender-based violence, before beginning her PhD at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville. She graduated from Tennessee with a PhD in (environmental) Sociology in August 2011, under the direction of Dr. Stephanie Bohon. Her unique background strongly influences her as an academic. Her pedagogical training from the University of North Carolina has guided her in the classroom and her social work experiences have helped her conduct meaningful, community-based research.
Carmel's research and teaching are centered around environmental justice, poverty, food insecurity, public health, and social justice.
Carmel's research and teaching are centered around environmental justice, poverty, food insecurity, public health, and social justice.
Carmel and her husband, Patrick, are the parents of two boys. As a family, they spend a lot of time on the soccer fields. Carmel loves sports, garden fresh vegetables, cooking and baking, Halloween, bicycle advocacy, and environmental justice.
Carmel and her husband, Patrick, are the parents of two boys. As a family, they spend a lot of time on the soccer fields. Carmel loves sports, garden fresh vegetables, cooking and baking, Halloween, bicycle advocacy, and environmental justice.
