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    Carla Goar

    Carla Goar

    Department of Sociology and Criminology
    Professor
    Contact Information
    Email:
    cgoar@kent.edu
    Phone:
    330-672-2749
    Fax:
    330-672-4724

    Biography

    Teaching and Research Interests:

    • Group Processes
    • Experimental Sociology
    • Race/Racism
    • Inequality

    Education

    Ph.D. Texas A&M University

    Publications

    • Manago, Bianca, Jenny Davis, and Carla Goar. 2017. Discourse in Action: Parent’s Use of Medical and Social Models to Resist Disability Stigma. Social Science and Medicine 184:169-177.
    • Goar, Carla, Jenny Davis, and Bianca Manago. 2017. Discursive Entwinement: How White Transracially Adoptive Parents Navigate Race” Sociology of Race and Ethnicity 3(3):228-354.

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