Nicole Stokes-DuPass is Associate Dean, School of Arts and Sciences and Associate Professor of Sociology at Holy Family University, USA. She previously served as a U.S. Fulbright Fellow and Guest Researcher at the Danish Institute for Social Research in Copenhagen, Denmark from 2000-2001 and 2008. She also previously served as a Dissertation Fellow for the American-Scandinavian Foundation to Denmark in 2008 and has also conducted research abroad in Russia, Germany and Cuba.