麻豆传媒

Professor of Sociology

Year Joined RCNJ: 2001

Contact Information

• Phone: (201) 684-6849
• Email: eaugis@ramapo.edu
• Office: G248

Education

• Ph.D. Sociology, University of Chicago

Courses Offered:

• Sociology Capstone
• Race Relations
• Women and Global Poverty
• Sociology of Religion

Teaching Interests:

• Race
• Gender
• Qualitative methods

Research Interests:

• American abolitionist movement
• Women in West Africa
• Islam
• Migration
• Development
• Race and Ethnicity

Recent Publications:

• 2022. 鈥淪ociologist in Action [Erin Augis鈥� research on Reverend John Mahan],鈥� in ed. Kristin Kenneavy et al, Social Research Methods: Sociology in Action. Sage.
• 2014. 聽鈥淎茂cha鈥檚 Sounith Hair Salon: Friendship, Profit, and Resistance in Dakar.鈥� Islamic Africa 5 (2). (peer refereed)
• 2013. 鈥淒akar鈥檚 Sunnite Women: The Dialectic of Submission and Defiance in a Globalizing City,鈥� in ed. Mamadou Diouf, Tolerance, Democracy, and Sufis in Senegal. New York: Columbia University Press.
• 2012. 鈥� 鈥楾hey Haven鈥檛 Even Mastered the Qur鈥檃n:鈥� Young Sunnite Women鈥檚 Negotiations of Social Change and Generational Hierarchies in Dakar,鈥� in ed. Marie-Nathalie Le Blanc and Muriel Gomez-Perez, L鈥橝frique des generations: Entre tensions et n茅gociations. Paris: Karthala (peer reviewed).
• 2012. “Religion, Religiousness and Narrative: Decoding Women鈥檚 Practices in Senegalese Islamic Reform.”聽Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion聽(peer reviewed).
• 2009. 鈥淵oung Sunnite Women and Economic Liberalization in Dakar, Senegal: Self, Solidarity, and Growing Up with Global Capitalism.鈥� Special issue of Afrique Contemporaine edited by Leonardo Villal贸n and Jean-Louis Triaud.
• 2008. “Jambaar or Jumbax-out? How Sunnite Women Negotiate Power and Belief in Orthodox Islamic Femininity,” in eds. Mamadou Diouf and Mara Leichtman, New Perspectives on Islam in Senegal: Conversion, Migration Wealth, Power and Femininity. Palgrave Macmillan.

• 2007. There Goes the Neighborhood: Racial, Ethnic, and Class Tensions in Four Chicago Neighborhoods and Their Meaning for America. With principal authors William Julius Wilson and Richard Taub. New York: Vintage. 2007.

Conference and other presentations:

• 2023. 鈥淩everend John Bennington Mahan鈥檚 anti-slavery sermons and letters鈥� Provost Bite-Size Faculty Research Presentation, January 23.
• 2022. 鈥淩everend John Bennington Mahan鈥檚 anti-slavery sermons and letters: The influence of the Second Great Awakening on early human rights activism in the American Midwest.鈥� Association for the Sociology of Religion, Los Angeles, California, August 8. (peer refereed)
• 2018. 鈥淥hio鈥檚 abolitionist radicals and their homes-turned-memorials.鈥� Havemeyer House Faculty Dinner, 麻豆传媒 of New Jersey, October 11
• 2017. 聽鈥淥hio鈥檚 Nineteenth Century Abolitionists: Communicating Progressive Histories in Conservative Contexts.鈥� SSHS Faculty Research Series, 麻豆传媒 of New Jersey, November 15.
• 2013.聽鈥�(Re)creating social distances: Enacting shame and respect as young Sunnite men and women in Dakar,鈥� African Studies Association, Baltimore, Maryland. Panel Chair. (peer reviewed)
• 2013. Guest lecture,聽鈥淲omen and Islam in contemporary Senegal鈥澛� SUNY-Orange, New York
• 2013. Guest lecture, 鈥淪unni women in Urban Senegal鈥澛犅� Lafayette College, Pennsylvania

Professional contributions:

• 2023 Grant Evaluator, Fulbright IIE
• 2023 Consultant to Elwin Studios on history of abolition in Ohio Valley
• 2021-present Consultant to Andale productions on history of abolition in Ohio Valley
• 2020 Consultant on female genital mutilation in West Africa for Western Missouri Legal Aid
• 2015 Country Expert, Georgetown University, Berkley Center for Religion,
  Peace, and World Affairs and the World Faiths Development Dialogue
• 2014 Country Expert, Varieties of Democracy Project, University of Notre Dame and University of Gothenburg Country Expert 鈥� Senegal (2012-13): Varieties of Democracy Project, University of Gothenberg and University of Notre Dame