Dr. Christopher Chambers joined Providence College in 2018 as an assistant professor of sociology.
Dr. Chambers earned a B.A. in Political Science from Drew University, a M.A. in College Student Personnel from the University of Maryland, a M.A. in Sociology from the University of Florida and Ph.D. in Sociology from Texas A&M University.
Dr. Chambers has a wealth of experience in higher education including 12 years in Student affairs at Drew University, the University of Maryland, Dartmouth College and Duke University.
During that time he worked in such functional areas as residence life, multicultural education, leadership education and at Duke’s Mary Lou Williams Center for Black Culture.
Prior to joining the full-time faculty at Providence College, he spent 10 years as an Assistant Teaching Professor at Northeastern University teaching courses in Introductory Sociology, Race and Ethnic Relations, Race Class and Gender, the Sociology of Sexualities, Critical Race Theory, Race and Social Identity and Introduction to African American Studies. At Northeastern he also served as Director of Undergraduate Programs for the Department of Sociology and Anthropology.
Dr. Chambers’ research uses an intersectional lens to study individual and collective black identities and seeks to highlight the ways that gender and sexuality influence those processes. His work examines the ways various ideologies, cultural norms, interpretations, and experiences of racism and anti-racist struggle influence the direction and content of Blackness. At the same time, his research attempts to shed light on the inconsistencies, paradoxes, tensions and diversity of Black life as it is lived in the context of racial hierarchy in America.
Dr. Chambers’ writing focuses on social theories of racism and on black gay men’s identities.
At Providence College, Dr. Chambers teaches undergraduate classes in Introduction to Sociology, Social Theory and Race, Class and Gender.
