Sofia Locklear

Dr. Sofia Locklear is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Toronto Mississauga. She graduated with her Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of New Mexico in 2021 and was a recipient of the American Sociological Associations Minority Fellowship Program in 2020-2021 (MFP Cohort 47). Her research more broadly studies the racialization of Indigenous people in North America. This includes but is not limited to white identity formation, housing and health outcomes for Indigenous people, as well as applied Indigenous Evaluation in the field of public health. She is an enrolled member of the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina.