Department of Sociology

Dr. Elizabeth Trudeau (she/her) began teaching at Appalachian State in 2023. She received her MA from the University of Chicago and her Doctorate from The University of Notre Dame. Before joining the faculty at App State, she taught at the University of Notre Dame (IN) and Carleton College (MN). Dr. Trudeau teaches a range of classes and is especially interested in courses that cover methods, criminology, gender, sexuality, and culture. Her research examines how and why society attempts to solve social issues related to gender, sex, and criminality. Her work explores how the anti-trafficking movement has grown and spread across the United States and how organizational and ideological factors shape it. She has also studied how race and gender impact the experiences of survival sex workers and how women integrate ideas about gender and religion into their lives and has been published in "Sexualities" and the "Journal of Human Trafficking." She currently serves as the advisor to the App State Sociology Club. She is passionate about supporting students as they discover how their unique interests, skills, and social science expertise can positively impact the world around them.

Courses Taught

• SOC 3340: Criminology
• SOC 3885: Research Methods
• SOC 4340: Punishment and Social Control
• SOC 4650: Women, Crime, and the Justice System

Research Interests

• Criminology
• Gender
• Sexuality
• Organizations and Social Fields

Recent Publications

Trudeau, Elizabeth, and Abigail Bartels Jorgensen. 2023 "Saying ‘I Do’ to Feminism: How U.S. Women Manage and Enact Religious and Feminist Identities in their Weddings." Religion and Gender13(1), 45-67. doi:10.1163/18785417-tat00002.

Trudeau, Elizabeth. 2021 “Discontented and Jack of All Trades: Revisiting Male Survival Sex Work Through Modern Sex Work Lenses.” Sexualities, 24(7), 922–940. doi: 10.1177/13634607211026465.

Elizabeth Trudeau, Scott Noble, Sill Davis, Sherman Bryant & Anthony Queen. 2021 “Identifying Trafficking Experience and Health Needs among African American Male Survival Sex Workers.” Journal of Human Trafficking, doi: 10.1080/23322705.2021.1994271.