- Ph.D. University of Connecticut, 2010
Areas of expertise
Gender, sexualities, social movements, theory, queer and trans studies
BIO
My primary areas of specialization are in gender, sexualities, and social movements, with an emphasis on queer and trans movements and politics.
Past research projects include:
- an analysis of mainstream and alternative press coverage of the same-sex marriage debate in the 1990s-2000s, focusing especially on the place of feminist and queer critiques of the institution of marriage within the debate;
- ethnographic research with an LGBT marriage equality organization, focusing on the relationship between professionalization and emotions in social movements;
- institutional ethnographic research on debates over medical diagnosis and treatment within the transgender rights movement as a way to explore the role of and relationships between medico-psychological discourse and practice and social movement activity in changing conceptions of sex and gender and processes of de/medicalization; and
- interview-based research on non-nuclear family households, intentional communities, and the role of heteronormativity in housing laws.
My current research explores gay bars and queer spaces.
My work appears in journals including Sociological Forum and Societies Without Borders, and in edited collections including The Marrying Kind? and Race, Gender and Sexuality in Post-apocalyptic TV and Film. I’m also one of the editors of Proud Little State, a comic series about queer and trans histories and communities in Vermont.
In addition to my work as a senior lecturer in Sociology and Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies (GSWS), where I teach courses on gender, sexualities, queer and trans studies, medicine, and social theory, I’m also the Director of the GSWS Program.
Bio
My primary areas of specialization are in gender, sexualities, and social movements, with an emphasis on queer and trans movements and politics.
Past research projects include:
- an analysis of mainstream and alternative press coverage of the same-sex marriage debate in the 1990s-2000s, focusing especially on the place of feminist and queer critiques of the institution of marriage within the debate;
- ethnographic research with an LGBT marriage equality organization, focusing on the relationship between professionalization and emotions in social movements;
- institutional ethnographic research on debates over medical diagnosis and treatment within the transgender rights movement as a way to explore the role of and relationships between medico-psychological discourse and practice and social movement activity in changing conceptions of sex and gender and processes of de/medicalization; and
- interview-based research on non-nuclear family households, intentional communities, and the role of heteronormativity in housing laws.
My current research explores gay bars and queer spaces.
My work appears in journals including Sociological Forum and Societies Without Borders, and in edited collections including The Marrying Kind? and Race, Gender and Sexuality in Post-apocalyptic TV and Film. I’m also one of the editors of Proud Little State, a comic series about queer and trans histories and communities in Vermont.
In addition to my work as a senior lecturer in Sociology and Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies (GSWS), where I teach courses on gender, sexualities, queer and trans studies, medicine, and social theory, I’m also the Director of the GSWS Program.