Notes on Contributors

Umme Al-wazedi is Associate Professor of Postcolonial Literature in the Department of English and Division Chair of Language and Literature at Augustana College, Rock Island, Illinois. Her research interest encompasses women writers of South Asia and the South Asian Diaspora, postcolonial and Muslim feminism, and postcolonial disability studies. She has published in South Asian Review and South Asian History and Culture and has also written several book chapters. She coedited a special issue of South Asian Review titled "Nation and Its Discontents" and a book titled Postcolonial Urban Outcasts: City Margins in South Asian Literature (Routledge, 2017) with Madhurima Chakraborty of Columbia College Chicago, Illinois.

Samantha M. Archer received her BA and MA from The University of Texas at Austin and is currently a PhD student in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Connecticut. She is a biocultural anthropologist and anthropological geneticist whose work merges the study of contemporary and ancient human DNA with critical queer, feminist, indigenous, and Black science studies. Her article, "Bisexual Science," cowritten with lab mate and colleague Dr. Rick W.A. Smith, was published in American Anthropologist (2019).

Elisabeth Armstrong is a Professor in the Program for the Study of Women and Gender at Smith College. She has published two books, Gender and Neoliberalism: The All India Democratic Women's Association and Globalization Politics (Routledge, 2013) and The Retreat from Organization: US Feminism Reconceptualized (SUNY Press, 2002).

Marci Berger, PhD, is an Assistant Professor at the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey. Her areas of interest include public health, health policy, public policy and sexual and reproductive health policy.

Ute Bettray currently teaches (trans)feminisms and (trans)gender studies at Humboldt University in Berlin, Germany where is preparing to write her Habilitation titled Literary Female Sexology, 1849-1899. She is also currently preparing an article titled "A Transfeminist Reading of Hannah Arendt's The Life of the Mind (1978) via Newest German Literature." Prior to teaching at Humboldt University, Dr. Bettray held an appointment as Visiting Assistant Professor of German at Lafayette College where she also taught courses such as Introduction to Women's and Gender Studies and Transfeminisms in the Women's and Gender Studies Program. Before coming to Lafayette College, Dr. Bettray had worked as a Visiting Assistant Professor of German and Gender Studies at Swarthmore College. She is in the process of publishing two book manuscripts located at the intersections of transfeminism and transnational transfeminism and German Studies. These manuscripts are entitled When Black Feminist Thought Meets Transfeminism: The Works of Angela Y. Davis and Audre Lorde, and Toward a Transnational Transfeminism via Germanic Sexology and Psychoanalysis. Among her latest publications is a book chapter titled "Making the Case for Transfeminism: The Activist Philosophies of CeCe McDonald and Angela Davis" included in an anthology on Embodied Difference (Jamie A. Thomas and Christina Jackson [eds.], Lexington Books, 2018).

Rose M. Brewer, PhD, is an activist scholar and The Morse Alumni Distinguished Teaching Professor and past chairperson of the Department of African American & African Studies, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities. Brewer publishes extensively on Black feminism, political economy, social movements, race, class, gender, and social change. Her current book project examines the impact of late capitalism on Black life in the US. Brewer has held the Sociologist for Women in Society Feminist Lectureship in Social Change, a Wiepking Distinguished Visiting Professorship at Miami University of Ohio, and was a 2013 Visiting Scholar in the Social Justice Initiative, University of Illinois-Chicago.

Margaret Campe, PhD, is the Director of the Jean Nidetch Women's Center at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Her research focuses on college campus sexual assault and the experiences of marginalized populations, domestic violence programming, and research methods. Margaret published an article in the Journal of Interpersonal Violence, entitled, "College Campus Sexual Assault and Students with Disabilities" (2019) and is editing a forthcoming textbook, Substance Use and Family Violence, with coeditors Dr. Carrie Oser, and Dr. Kathi Harp (Cognella, anticipated 2021). She is also coauthoring a chapter examining mixed methods and quasi-experimental designs, for The Routledge Handbook of Domestic Violence and Abuse, with Dr. Diane Follingstad and Dr. Claire M. Renzetti.

Patricia Hill Collins is a social theorist whose research and scholarship have examined issues of race, gender, social class, sexuality and/or nation. Her first book, Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment (Routledge), published in 1990, with a revised tenth anniversary edition published in 2000, won the Jessie Bernard Award of the American Sociological Association (ASA) for significant scholarship in gender, and the C. Wright Mills Award of the Society for the Study of Social Problems. Her second book, Race, Class, and Gender 10th ed. (2019), edited with Margaret Andersen, is widely used in undergraduate classrooms in over 200 colleges and universities. Black Sexual Politics: African Americans, Gender, and the New Racism (Routledge, 2004) received ASA's 2007 Distinguished Publication Award. Her other books include Fighting Words: Black Women and the Search for Justice (University of Minnesota Press, 1998); From Black Power to Hip Hop: Racism, Nationalism, and Feminism (Temple University Press, 2005); Another Kind of Public Education: Race, Schools, the Media and Democratic Possibilities (Beacon Press, 2009); the Handbook of Race and Ethnic Studies, edited with John Solomos (Sage, 2010); and On Intellectual Activism (Temple University Press, 2012). In 2008, she became the 100th President of the American Sociological Association, the first African-American woman elected to this position in the organization's 104-year history. Professor Collins also holds an appointment as the Charles Phelps Taft Emeritus Professor of Sociology within the Department of African American Studies at the University of Cincinnati.

Christa Craven is the Dean for Faculty Development and a Professor of Anthropology and Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies (Chair from 2012 to 2017) at the College of Wooster. Her research interests include reproductive health and reproductive justice, lesbian/gay/bi/trans/queer reproduction, midwifery activism, feminist ethnography and activist scholarship, and feminist pedagogy. She is the author of Reproductive Losses: Challenges to LGBTQ Family-Making (Routledge, 2019), Pushing for Midwives: Homebirth Mothers and the Reproductive Rights Movement (Temple University Press, 2010) and a textbook with Dána-Ain Davis, Feminist Ethnography: Thinking Through Methodologies, Challenges and Possibilities (Rowman & Littlefield, 2016). Her professional website is: http://discover.wooster.edu/ccraven.

Danielle M. Currier is an Associate Professor and Chair of Sociology, Coordinator of Gender Studies, and Director of the Summer Research Program at Randolph College. Her teaching foci are gender, sexuality, family, qualitative methods, and social theory. Her research foci are hookups among college students, violence against women, and gender and sport. She is coauthor of "The Social Construction of Women's Interests in the 2014 and 2010 Midterms" in Political Communication & Strategy: Consequences of the 2014 Midterm Elections (2017). She is author of "Strategic Ambiguity: How the Vagueness of the Term 'Hookup' Protects and Perpetuates Hegemonic Masculinity and Emphasized Femininity" in Gender & Society (2013) and "Creating Attitudinal Change Through Teaching: How a Course on 'Women and Violence' Changes Students' Attitudes About Violence Against Women" in Journal of Interpersonal Violence (2009).

Dána-Ain Davis is Director of the Center for the Study of Women and Society and is on the faculty in the PhD program in anthropology and critical psychology at the Graduate Center, City University of New York. She is also Professor of Urban Studies at Queens College. Her work is concerned with how people live policy, inequality, and racism. Her research topics include neoliberalism, poverty, reproduction, domestic violence, and HIV/AIDS. She is the author of Reproductive Injustice: Racism, Pregnancy, and Premature Birth (NYU Press, 2019); coauthor, with Christa Craven, of Feminist Ethnography: Thinking Through Methodologies, Challenges and Possibilities (Rowman & Littlefield, 2016); coeditor, with Shaka McGlotten, of Black Genders and Sexualities (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012); contributing author to Beyond Reproduction: Women's Health, Activism, and Public Policy by Karen Baird with Kimberly Christensen (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2009); and the author of Battered Black Women and Welfare Reform: Between a Rock and a Hard Place (SUNY Press,...