Contact Information
Associate Professor of Sociology
Office: WOOL 305
Phone: (936) 261-3210
Email: fgcambrice@pvamu.edu
Teaching/Research Area of Interest
- Family
- Qualitative Research Methods
- Race and Ethnicity
- Community Engagement
- Emerging Adulthood
Education
- Ph.D. Tulane University, Sociology, 2009.
- M.S. University of North Texas, Sociology, 2001.
- B.A. Grambling State University, Sociology, summa cum laude, 1999.
Selection of Courses Taught
- Black Family
- Cultural Sociology
- Family Violence
- General Sociology
- Qualitative Research Methods
- Sociology of Minorities
- Social Psychology
- Urban Sociology
Selected Research Activities
- Robinson, Marco and Farrah Gafford. 2017. “Telling the Stories of Forgotten Communities: Oral History, Public Memory and African American Communities in the American South.” Collections: A Journal for Museum and Archive Professionals 13(2): 171-184.
- Gafford, Farrah. 2015. “Is It Easy Living in the Big Easy: Examining the Lives of African American Emerging Adults in the Aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.” In Black Sociology: Contemporary Issues and Future Directions, edited by Earl Wright II and Edward Wallace. Ashgate Publishing Company.
- Gafford, Farrah. 2015. “Flourishing or Floundering: Examining the Career Paths of African American Emerging Adults in Post Katrina New Orleans.” In Survivor Scholars on Hurricane Katrina: A Decade of Disaster Recovery, edited by Jeannie Haubert. Lexington Books.
- Gafford, Farrah. 2013. “It Was a Real Village”: Community Identity Formation among Black Middle Class Residents in Pontchartrain Park.” Journal of Urban History 39 (1): 36-58.
- Gafford, Farrah. 2010. “Rebuilding the Park: The Impact of Hurricane Katrina on a Black Middle-Class Neighborhood.” Journal of Black Studies 41(2):385-404.
- Prairie View A&M University Summer Mini Grant Program. “College Preparation Among African-American Students: A Qualitative Case Study of an Inner-City College Readiness Program.” 2017. (Awarded, $20,000)
- United Negro College Fund’s Henry C. McBay Research Fellowship. “Is it Easy Living in the Big Easy? : Examining the Lives of African American Emerging Adults in Post-Katrina New Orleans.” 2012. (Awarded, $12,000)
- National Science Foundation, Urban Long-term Research Area (ULTRA) Exploratory Award, “Reconsidering the New Normal: The Impact of Trauma on Urban Ecological and Social Diversity.” (Senior Personnel). 2009-2012. (Awarded, $23,572)
Selected Service Activities
Prairie View A&M University
- Sociology Club Co-Advisor, Prairie View A&M University, 2017
- Research Grant Committee, Division of Social Work, Behavioral and Political Sciences, 2017.
- Research Committee, Division of Social Work, Behavioral and Political Sciences, 2017.
- Quality Enhancement Plan Design Committee, Prairie View A&M University, 2017.