Pamela Prickett is an associate professor of sociology at Pomona College.

Prior to Pomona, she taught at the University of Amsterdam for seven years. She earned her PhD from UCLA and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Rice University. She is the author of two books about Los Angeles, including The Unclaimed: Abandonment and Hope in the City of Angels (with Stefan Timmermans, Crown 2024) and Believing in South Central: Everyday Islam in the City of Angels (University of Chicago 2021). 

Her research and teaching focus on urban inequality, community-building, death/dying, religion, gender, mental health, and qualitative methods. Before academia, Pamela worked in television as a producer, host, and archival researcher. In recent years, she has moved into audio production, with one podcast completed and another in the works. She holds journalism and media degrees from Boston University, the London School of Economics, and USC Annenberg.

When she’s not writing, teaching, or producing, Pamela loves to travel. She has lived in four countries across three continents and, after years of dreaming of a return to Southern California, is thrilled to call Claremont, 35 miles east of LA, home.