Julia Bates, Ph.D. is an Assistant Lecturer in Sociology at Sacred Heart University.  She previously taught at Boston College and Gonzaga University. Her research focuses on social movements and social theory, race and ethnicity and global sociology and has been published in the Sociology of Race and Ethnicity, as well as the Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth.  At Boston College she was awarded a Summer Research Fellowship Grant on The Racialization of Childhood: A Comparative History of Child Removal in the Late Nineteenth Century and Race and the Development of the Federal Children’s Bureau. Julia has also been awarded the Severyn T. Bruyn Award for Outstanding Scholarship in Social Economy and Social Justice.