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Victoria Lauren Isaac

Graduate Student

Sociology

Pronouns: She/Her/Hers

Contact

Building & Room:

4005 BSB

Address:

1007 W. Harrison St

About

Victoria Isaac is a doctoral student in Sociology and a Pipeline to an Inclusive Faculty (PIF) fellow at the University of Illinois Chicago. Her research interests encompass race, religion, education, and public space. Her current research explores processes of race-making within the Black American community and how these processes intersect with religion and education.

Victoria is a research assistant at the Institute for Research on Race and Public Policy (IRRPP). She previously earned her Bachelor of Arts degree with majors in Dance and Sociology and her Master of Arts degree in Sociology, both from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Victoria is an alum of the Ronald E. McNair Postbaccalaureate Achievement Program.

Publications:

Isaac, Victoria. 2024. “Spatial Transcendence: When Congregational Experiences Leave the Sanctuary.” Studying Congregations. (https://studyingcongregations.org/spatial-transcendence-when-congregational-experiences-leave-the-sanctuary/).

Chan, Esther, and Victoria Isaac (equal co-authorship). 2024. “Racialized Fear, Fatigue, Pessimism, and Colorblindness: Hindrances to Racial Dialogue on Fifteen Christian Colleges in the US.” Ethnic and Racial Studies 47(6):1109–31. doi: 10.1080/01419870.2023.2237563.