Jennifer Patrice Sims is a US-based sociologist whose research examines racial construction, perception, and identity, and interrogates how knowledge about race and racism is produced and disseminated. She is the author of four books-- The Fallacies of Racism (2024), The Inequality of Racial Perception (forthcoming), Mixed-Race in the US & UK (2020), and The Sociology of Harry Potter (2012)-- and over a dozen articles/book chapters. She offers academic book proposal reviews to aspiring writers and routinely speaks at universities & corporations and to national & international news media.
Jennifer Patrice Sims is a US-based sociologist whose research examines racial construction, perception, and identity, and interrogates how knowledge about race and racism is produced and disseminated. She is the author of four books-- The Fallacies of Racism (2024), The Inequality of Racial Perception (forthcoming), Mixed-Race in the US & UK (2020), and The Sociology of Harry Potter (2012)-- and over a dozen articles/book chapters. She offers academic book proposal reviews to aspiring writers and routinely speaks at universities & corporations and to national & international news media.
Dr. Sims is the recipient of the 2020 Stanford M. Lyman Distinguished Book Award from the Mid-South Sociological Association and the 2021 Distinguished Contributions to Teaching Award from the Southern Sociological Society. She holds degrees in Sociology from Hampton University, Vanderbilt University, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Previously an Adjunct Professor at UW-River Falls, she is presently an Associate Professor at (but of course does not speak on behalf of) the University of Alabama in Huntsville.
Dr. Sims is the recipient of the 2020 Stanford M. Lyman Distinguished Book Award from the Mid-South Sociological Association and the 2021 Distinguished Contributions to Teaching Award from the Southern Sociological Society. She holds degrees in Sociology from Hampton University, Vanderbilt University, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Previously an Adjunct Professor at UW-River Falls, she is presently an Associate Professor at (but of course does not speak on behalf of) the University of Alabama in Huntsville.