Mentor Record

Mary L. Gray

Department of Communication and Culture
Mottier Hall (Ashton Center)
Indiana University
Bloomington, IN 47405

<mlg@indiana.edu>

Degrees Earned:
Degree
Discipline
School
Date
Ph.D Communication U of CA, San Deigo 2004
MA Anthropology San Francisco State U 1999
BA Native American Studies /
Anthropology		 U of CA, Davis 1992

Major Influences on Professional Life (Professors, Colleagues, Students):

Michel Focault, Everett C. Hughes, Esther Newton, Anselm Strauss (more generally, symbolic interactionism and early Chicago School sociology)

Subfields of Interest within Anthropology:

Queer Sexualities and Genders; Youth; Rurality; Media and Communication Technology

Regions of Specialization and Languages:

Rural U.S. (Midwest, Southeast, Appalachia); English and Spanish

Interests within G/L/B/T/Q Anthropology:

  • Queer identity, youth, and the public sphere
  • Negotiations of youth identities within larger institutional frameworks

Major Publications:

2004: “Finding Pride and the Struggle for Freedom to Assemble: The Case of Queer Youth in U.S. Schools." In G. Goodman and K. Carey (eds.) Multicultural Conversations. Hampton Press.

1999: In Your Face: Stories from the Lives of Queer Youth. Haworth Press.

Current research, interests, and goals:

  • Intersections of youth identity-making, queer social worlds, and new media engagements
  • Popular representations of rurality
  • Production of sexual scientific knowledge vis-a-vis ethics, IRBs, and cultural politics.
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