DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY

Area(s) of Interest

Sociological methods and epistemology, race theory, anti-colonial thought, empire, race and racism, global sociology

Specialities

Historical Sociology
Inequality/Stratification
Law and Society
Political Sociology
Qualitative Methodology
Race, Gender, and Class
Social Movements
Theory

Current Research 

I have two questions that motivate my professional research career. My primary question, more oriented to a traditional research agenda, asks how the political imaginaries of people collectively resisting oppression shape political structures and material inequality through their enacted resistance. The second, informed by a Pragmatist commitment to experimentation as an epistemological pursuit, asks what role social scientists and our work can have in changing oppressive social structure. My dissertation addresses my primary research question by asking how different ideas of race and empire alongside different theories of change held by those resisting Jim Crow segregation in the legal realm, impacted the unfurling of U.S. American segregation at the turn of the 20th century. I explore how the legacy of French and Spanish colonization of the Americas intimately shaped U.S. racial segregation through the case Plessy V. Ferguson, a test case put forth by French Creole American citizens attempting to resist Jim Crow.

Publications

Peer Reviewed Articles Under Review: Vincent, Luna. “ Racial Cognizance and Support for Black Social Movement: A Conceptual Opposite to Theories of Racial Non-Knowing”

Book Chapters: 2022 Brown, Karida and Luna Vincent. 2022. “American Pragmatism and the Dilemma of the Negro.”Pp 364-176 in The New Pragmatist Social Science: Agency, Inquiry, and Democracy. Edited by Neil L. Gross, Isaac Ariail Reed and Christopher Winship. New York: Columbia University Press

Other: 2022 Vincent, Luna. 2022. “Models for Solving Empire.” Trajectories: Newsletter of the ASA Comparative and Historical Sociology Section, 33(1): 28-30.