Email: shoiland@hostos.cuny.edu
Office Tel: 718-518-6874
Biography: Sarah L. Hoiland has a M.A. and a Ph.D. in sociology from The New School for Social Research. She is an ethnographer with research interests in alternative feminisms in male-dominated subcultures and incorporates participant observation, interviews, archival research, and qualitative data analysis in her research and writing. In 2025, Dr. Hoiland published
Righteous Sisterhood: The Politics and Power in an All-Women's Motorcycle Club with Temple University Press. She has published numerous articles and has been the Principal Investigator of three National Science Foundation grants totalling over $2.5M. She was selected as an inaugural Mellon/ ACLS Community College Faculty Fellow in 2019. Dr. Hoiland is the CUNY Academy Research and Budget Director and a CUNY Faculty Fellowship Publication Program (FFPP) mentor. In addition to teaching classes at Hostos, she teaches classes for several College-in-Prison Programs, including Hudson Link, John Jay College's Prison-to-College Pathway, and CUNY-Hostos New Paths. She is an active member of the American Sociological Association (ASA) and Eastern Sociological Society, a board member of the nonprofit Roots and Action/ Raíces y Acción and The PILLARS in Harlem, and a trustee at The Gow School.
Courses Taught:
SOC 101 Introduction to Sociology
SOC 140 Race and Ethnicity
ANT 101 Introduction to Anthropology
CAP 200 Bronx Beautiful
For more information, please go to her CUNY Academic Commons Profile.