Karen Dugger came to Towson University in 1999 as a faculty member in Women’s Studies and Director of the National Center for Curriculum Transformation Resources on Women. Prior to her arrival at Towson, she chaired the Sociology and Anthropology Department at Bucknell University, where in 1987, she founded the Race/Gender Resource Center and served as its director until her departure. She has been involved in curriculum transformation work aimed at building a more race and gender inclusive curriculum for most of her academic career, consulting at several colleges and universities. She teaches in the areas of race and ethnic relations, women and development, women in international perspective, and women and work. Her research, which is concerned with the intersection of race and gender, has challenged the universalism found in western feminist scholarship. Her published work includes: Social Location and Gender-Role Attitudes: A Comparison of Black and White Women, Race Differences in the Determinants of Support for Legalized Abortion, Changing the Subject: Race and Gender in Feminist Discourse, and Black Women and the Question of Abortion.

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