Angie Luvara

Assistant Professor & Program Coordinator  |  Frostburg State University, Department of Law, Society & Humanities

angie luvara (she/they) is an Assistant Professor of Sociology and Coordinator of the Critical Gender and Sexuality Studies Program at Frostburg State University in western (Appalachian) Maryland. They were born and raised in the eastern panhandle of West Virginia and, like many Appalachians, spent 20 years outside the region as a young adult before returning back home to Keyser, WV, where she currently resides. She is currently conducting research on policing and police brutality in Appalachia that applies abolitionist theory and praxis to Appalachian history and experiences.