Sarah Adeyinka-Skold

Assistant Professor of Sociology

  • Los Angeles CA UNITED STATES

Bellarmine College of Liberal Arts

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Biography

As a meeting and mating sociologist, Sarah Adeyinka-Skold is interested in how inequalities are produced and reproduced in the process of forming and maintaining romantic relationships. She is also interested in producing theories about meeting and mating that are inclusive of LGBTQ+ relations. She has taught courses on introductory and family sociology, and is looking forward to developing courses about the Black Family, technology, race, and gender, and gender and sexuality, and romance and relationships. Her work has also been featured in the Philadelphia Inquirer, Voices of Africa, and podcast series Dear Franny: Uncommon Conversations About Love.

Education

Princeton University

B.A.

Sociology

2006

University of Chicago

M.A.

Social Work

2008

University of Pennsylvania

M.A.

Sociology

2015

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Areas of Expertise

Race and Ethnicity
Gender
Family
Immigration
Sex and Sexualities
Qualitative Sociology

Accomplishments

Center for Teaching and Learning Teaching Excellence Fellowship, University of Pennsylvania

2019 (declined)

SAS Dissertation Completion Fellowship, University of Pennsylvania

2019

Bassi Scholarship, Editing Press Inc.

2019

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Affiliations

  • American Sociological Association : Member
  • Sociologists for Women in Society-South : Member
  • Society for the Study of Social Problems : Member

Media Appearances

Black Women are Enough with Sarah Adeyinka-Skold

The Laverne Cox Show  online

2021-07-15

What are your dating preferences? Do you prefer a certain ethnicity or race over another? What does it mean to have this sort of preference and where does it come from? Sociologist and social worker Sarah Adeyinka-Skold's latest research involved interviewing Black women about the unique difficulties they experience dating on and offline. In this episode, she and Laverne breakdown how the structures of white supremacy and patriarchy imprint themselves onto our dating habits.

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Greenville women lack support to fight 'pressure' of traditional gender roles

Greenville News  online

2021-12-25

Now, as more women are working outside of the home, Furman University sociology professor Sarah Adeyinka-Skold believes there is not enough infrastructure to support working mothers. More time for maternity leave, more flexible schedules and higher, "breadwinning" wages would help, Adeyinka-Skold said.

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My Brush With the Black Manosphere

Elle  online

2022-01-25

Dr. Sarah Adeyinka-Skold, an assistant professor of sociology at Furman University, has seen these truths born out in her research on the dating lives of heterosexual Black women. She explains that on dating apps, Black women are often not selected by male partners, and when they do garner attention, tropes of them as sluts or welfare queens also mean they face fetishization and derogatory language. According to Adeyinka-Skold, “[Black women] are the only racial group to be excluded by non-Black men and Black men.”

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Event Appearances

“Counting the Costs: Relationship Formation Among Black and White College-Educated Women”

Eastern Sociological Society Conference  Baltimore, MD

2018-01-01

“Finding Romance in the Digital Age”

Graduate Student Conference, Harvard  Boston, MA

2019-01-01

“Place Still Matters: Race, Place, and Relationship Formation Among College-Educated Women”

Eastern Sociological Society Conference  Boston, MA

2019-01-01

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Articles

Learning About Whiteness: The Lived Experiences of Intermarried US-Born White and European Immigrant Women in the 1930s

Sociology of Race and Ethnicity

2018

Race, Place, and Relationship Formation in the Digital Age

Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race

2020

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Barriers, Emotion Work, and Relationship Formation

Young Adult Sexuality in the Digital Age

2020

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