A. Rafik Mohamed is an Associate Professor and the Chair of the Sociology Department at USD. He is also an affiliated faculty member in the Ethnic Studies Program and the Director of the USD Jamaica study abroad program. A native of the Washington, D.C. area and alumnus of the George Washington University, Mohamed moved to the West Coast to pursue graduate studies at the University of California at Irvine where the appeal of becoming an “Anteater” coupled with an interdisciplinary degree program in Criminology, Law and Society proved too enticing to resist. After Irvine, Mohamed accepted an offer to drift a bit south on the 5 freeway and join the USD Sociology Department to add curriculum in crime, law and society, and ethnic studies. His general areas of specialization include law and inequality; race and rights; sport, race, gender, and resistance; and U.S. drug policy. Currently, Professor Mohamed is conducting research examining the impact of tourism on the environmental and cultural ecology of post-colonial Jamaica. He is also working with fellow USD sociologist Erik Fritsvold on a book which builds off of their previously published research exploring 21st century illicit drug markets in the U.S. In the spring of 2008, Professor Mohamed will be teaching “Sport in Social Context” and a team-taught Social Issues course with Carlton Floyd from the English Department formally titled “Another Country: Race, Sexuality, and Class through the works of James Baldwin.”
