Kim Huisman Lubreski is a sociologist with twenty years of experience teaching sociology courses and conducting community-based research with immigrant groups, in Maine and Vermont.  Kim has taught courses on a wide range of subjects including social inequality, immigration, social psychology, deviance, social problems, sociology of the family, and research methods. Kim was an Associate Professor in the Sociology Department at the University of Maine for twelve years before coming to Georgetown, and her publications have primarily focused on immigration, the scholarship of teaching and learning, and gender and identity.  She was the lead editor of the 2011 book, Somalis in Maine: Crossing Cultural Currents. 

Kim is currently the Assistant Director of Learning Design at Georgetown's Center for New Designs in Learning and Scholarship (CNDLS) and teaches in Sociology and Justice and Peace Studies. She earned my Ph.D. from the University of Southern California and M.A. and B.S. degrees from Saint Joseph’s University.