Profile
Sabrina Strings was born in Pasadena, California. She has a B.A. in Psychology with High Honors from the University of California, Berkeley, and an M.A. in Sociology from the University of California, San Diego. A former McNair scholar, she wrote an article titled, “Maintaining the Status Quo: Rap Music Preferences,” that was published in the Berkeley McNair Journal. She has traveled extensively in Europe, and lived in France for a year. Her time abroad sparked her interest in race relations in France, a country that does not collect census data on race. She is currently working on an article titled “A History of Silence” that explores the difficulty of addressing discrimination in this context. Sabrina is passionate about the politics of representation, and has engaged in various forms advocacy. In 2008, working with her colleagues in the Department of Sociology at UC San Diego, she co-founded the Graduate Student Diversity Committee, a group dedicated to increasing the representation of historically underrepresented groups on campus. She is a member of the Black Graduate Association, and is the current Vice President of Diversity Affairs for the Graduate Student Association. Sabrina is a Ph.D. Candidate, and is working on her dissertation entitled, “Bound Bodies: An investigation of gender, race and class in the slender aesthetic.” This project has been selected to receive the award for Outstanding Graduate Dissertation at the May 2010 AAASRP awards banquet.
