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Susan C. Pearce holds her Ph D in Sociology from the New School for Social Research and is Associate Professor of Sociology at East Carolina University in North Caro...
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Susan C. Pearce holds her Ph D in Sociology from the New School for Social Research and is Associate Professor of Sociology at East Carolina University in North Carolina, United States. She has served on the faculties of Gettysburg College; University of Gdansk, Poland; and West Virginia University. Among her research interests are sociology of culture, human rights, race, social movements, immigration, and gender. She is co-author of the book Immigration and Women: Understanding the American Experience (with Elizabeth J. Clifford and Reena Tandon) and co-editor of the books Mosaics of Change: The First Decade of Life in the New Eastern Europe (with Eugenia Sojka); and Istanbul: Living with Difference in a Global City (with Nora Fisher-Onar).
Eugenia Sojka, Ph.D., D. Litt., is an Associate Professor at the Institute of Literary Studies and Institute of Cultural Studies, University of Silesia, Poland, as well as Adjunct Professor at the Department of English, UFV, Canada. She holds a Ph.D. in English with a specialization in Canadian literature from Memorial University of Newfoundland. Her interests focus on Indigenous and minority literatures and cultures in Canada and Upper Silesia, Poland. She is the author of numerous journal publications in the areas of Canadian and English Studies and critical theory. She is also the editor and co-editor of the books: (De)Constructing Canadianness. Myth of the Nation and Its Discontents; Mosaics of Change: The First Decade of Life in the New Eastern Europe (with Susan C. Pearce); Embracing Otherness: Canadian Minority Discourses in Transcultural Perspectives (with Tomasz Sikora); and Państwo, Naród, Tożsamość w Dyskursach Kulturowych Kanady [State, Nation, Identity in Canadian Cultural Discourses] (with M.Buchholtz). As a Director of Canadian Studies Centre at the University of Silesia, she organized and co-organized conferencesand workshops, as well as many lectures and readings by Canadian writers, artists, and academics.
