Angel Adams Parham is Associate Professor of sociology, and senior fellow of the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture at the University of Virginia. She is also the Associate Director of UVA’s major in Political and Social Thought. Parham is passionate about education across the K-16 educational spectrum, and her research and teaching are inspired by classical philosophies of living and learning that emphasize the pursuit of truth, goodness, and beauty.   She has homeschooled her daughters, and is the co-founder and executive director of Nyansa Classical Community, an educational non-profit focused on K-12 students which provides classical and Christian curricula at the lower and upper school levels for schools and homeschools. Parham is the co-author (with Anika Prather) of The Black Intellectual Tradition: Reading Freedom in Classical Literature which examines the lives of several Black intellectuals, highlighting the ways their lives of faith intersect with their formation in the classics and their contributions to their communities. Parham completed her B.A. in sociology at Yale University and her M.S. and Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She has been a member of the School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, as well as the recipient of a Fulbright grant.