Pamela Prickett is an associate professor of sociology at the University of Amsterdam.

After earning her PhD from UCLA, she completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Rice University. She is the author of two books about Los Angeles, including the forthcoming The Unclaimed: Abandonment and Hope in the City of Angels (with Stefan Timmermans) and Believing in South Central: Everyday Islam in the City of Angels. 

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 currently divides her time between Amsterdam, LA, and her hometown of Houston.