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Research Enhancement Grant, Furman University Research and Professional Growth Committee

Mellon Fellowship, Furman University

Bassi Scholarship, Editing Press Inc.

SAS Dissertation Completion Fellowship, University of Pennsylvania

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

American Sociological Association : Member

Sociologists for Women in Society-South : Member

Society for the Study of Social Problems : Member

Inclusive Placemaking: A Study of the Joseph Vaughn Plaza at Furman University

Searching for Love in the Age of Trump: The Impact for Race and Political Ideology in Partner Preferences Among Ethno-Racial Minorities

Barriers, Emotion Work, and Relationship Formation

Race, Place, and Relationship Formation in the Digital Age

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

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.

Race and Ethnicity

Gender

Family

Immigration

Sex and Sexualities

Qualitative Sociology

Google Scholar Citations

ResearchGate Citations

Roe v Wade ruling by Supreme Court affects more than abortion rights

How Black Women Are Taking Their Power Back In A Discriminatory Dating Landscape

My Brush With the Black Manosphere

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

Black Women are Enough with Sarah Adeyinka-Skold

“Reification of Gendered Initiation Norms on Dating Technology”

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

“Finding Romance in the Digital Age”

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

Assistant Professor of Sociology

“We live in a racist society, so we’re just going to take our racism and our sexism and put it onto technology. You could argue that because we can hide behind technology we can even delve more into racism, fetishism and discrimination.” Did you know that college educated women face additional challenges in finding love online? And that it’s even more challenging for college educated women of color? And that it’s most challenging for black women? Doctoral candidate Sarah Adeyinka-Skold’s research on digital dating reveals the extent to which all women are finding men intimidated by their education, and how women of color are dealing with systemic racism. She and Francesca share how they met their partners and their advice for women of color looking for love. 

  Sarah's Bio

 Sarah Adeyinka-Skold is a doctoral candidate at the University of Pennsylvania. Her research interests include race, family, and gender. Her dissertation explores the experiences of college-educated women of varying ethno-racial backgrounds as they search for romantic partners in the digital age. She was interviewed at length about her dissertation research in the Philadelphia Inquirer, the city’s largest newspaper. Sarah has also published research on racial formation among European immigrant and US-born white women in Sociology of Race and Ethnicity. Sarah’s future research will explore relationship formation among LGTBQ+ individuals of varying ethno-racial and class backgrounds, with a goal to produce relationship formation theory that is inclusive of race, class, gender, and sexuality. Sarah graduated from Princeton University with a bachelor’s degree in sociology; and also earned a Master's of Social Work from the University of Chicago. She is a licensed clinical social worker and has worked as a hospital social worker at the Hospital of University of Pennsylvania for the last 11 years. In her spare time, Sarah sleeps, reads fiction and non-fiction work by Black women of the African diaspora, and watches Law and Order with her husband. Sarah can also be found laughing hysterically about something she saw on Black Twitter. 

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 Sarah’s Twitter @lovieskold 

  Philadelphia Inquirer article 

 Keep in touch!

 Francesca's IG @dearfranny

 Francesca's Twitter @dearfranny

 Dear Franny Podcast IG @dearfrannypodcast

 Francesca's FB /dearfranny

 Dear Franny Podcast FB /dearfrannypodcast

 Francesca's website

 Dear Franny Podcast website

 Credits

 Cover art photography by Frankie Norstad

 Cover art graphic design by Sarah Epperson

 Theme music by Origamibeats

 Edited by  Bex Carlos

 Produced by Francesca Hogi

 Assistant to Francesca Hogi Kaitlan Holley

Ep #20 -- Sarah Adeyinka-Skold

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