Notes on Contributors

Shweta M. Adur, PhD, is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at California State University, Los Angeles. Before this, she served as an Assistant Professor of Women and Gender Studies at California State University, Fullerton. She completed her PhD in Sociology from the University of Connecticut and has received a Master's in International Development from the University of Pittsburgh. Her research interests include gender, sexuality, human rights and immigration. She is the coauthor of the book As the Leaves Turn Gold: Asian Americans and Experiences of Aging (Rowman & Littlefield, 2012) that engages with issues surrounding aging and social inequality from a transnational perspective. Her publications have appeared in peer-reviewed journals (most recent ones were featured in Current Sociology and Journal of Gender Studies) and edited collections.

Louisa Allen is a Professor of Education at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. She specializes in research in the areas of sexuality, education, and young people. These topics are explored through the theoretical frameworks of queer theory and feminist new materialisms. She has published eight books in these areas the most recent of which is Sexuality Education and New Materialism: Queer Things (Palgrave, 2018).

Julie Beaulieu is a Lecturer for the Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies Program at the University of Pittsburgh. She received her PhD in Literature with a certificate in Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies from the University of Pittsburgh. Her research and teaching interests include the history of sexuality, LGBTQ studies, eighteenth-century British literature, queer theory, and affect theory. She is currently working on her first book manuscript, entitled, Obsessive Love: A Queer History.

Kelsy Burke is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln where she researches the relationship between religion and sexuality in contemporary America. Her first book is Christians under Covers: Evangelicals and Sexual Pleasure on the Internet (University of California Press, 2016). Her research has also appeared in Sexualities, Sociological Compass, the Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, and the Journal for Religion and Popular Culture.

Courtney Caviness is a PhD candidate in sociology at the University of California, Davis. Her research focus is in areas of gender, sexuality, and work, as primarily viewed through feminist and critical theory lenses. Her current research relies on interviews with current and former LGBTQ military personnel to examine how they experience the increasingly inclusionary US military workplace following the repeal of "Don't Ask Don't Tell" and most recently, the ban on transgender service.

Stuti Das is a PhD student in the Department of Sociology at Boston University. She received her M.Phil. from the Department of Sociology, University of Hyderabad, India in 2019. Her research interests lie in the areas of gender, sexualities, migration, and global health.

Jennifer Ann Drobac is the Samuel R. Rosen Professor of Law at the Indiana University, Robert H. McKinney School of Law. Her recent work includes: Sexual Exploitation of Teenagers: Adolescent Development, Discrimination, and Consent Law (University of Chicago Press, 2016) and two forthcoming books, Sexual Harassment Law: History, Cases, and Practice 2nd ed., with co-authors Carrie N. Baker and Rigel C. Oliveri (Carolina Academic Press, 2020) and The Myth of Consent (Cambridge University Press, anticipated 2021). She anticipates the completion of Rule10b-5 Financial Reporting of Sexual Harassment: The Empirical Evidence for A New Approach (with Dr. Mark Russell) - an article on the corporate disclosure of the costs of sexual harassment.

Donna J. Drucker is Senior Advisor, English as the Language of Instruction at Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany. She is the author of The Classification of Sex: Alfred Kinsey and the Organization of Knowledge (Pittsburgh, 2014), The Machines of Sex Research: Technology and the Politics of Identity, 1945-1985 (Springer, 2014), and Contraception: A Concise History (MIT, forthcoming 2020). Her next monograph project is a history of barrier contraceptives for women. She thanks the 2017 Berliner Colloquium zur Geschichte der Sexualität for their feedback on an earlier version of the chapter in this volume.

Elya M. Durisin holds a PhD in Political Science from York University, Canada. Her research focused on sexualized nationalism in narratives of sex trafficking in government discourse. She has been involved in the sex worker rights movement locally and internationally, and she is a coeditor, with Emily van der Meulen and Chris Bruckert, of Red Light Labour: Sex Work Regulation, Agency, and Resistance (UBC Press, 2018).

Michele Eggers-Barison is an Assistant Professor at Chico State University. Her work focuses on addressing global reproductive inequities and the interrelated issues of environmental and economic exploitation, poverty, and repression, linking broader constructs of violence to lived experience. She is currently working on a book manuscript based on her dissertation, Embodying Inequality: The Criminalization of Women for Abortion in Chile. She is a documentary filmmaker, producing multiple shorts on gender-based violence and environmental and human rights abuses, the producer of the Eugene Environmental Film Festival, and activist on these issues.

Apoorva Ghosh is a PhD candidate in Sociology at the University of California, Irvine. His research is located at the intersection of sociology of sexualities, family, social movements, globalization, and organizations. He has authored papers in these areas for Gender, Work & Organizations, Indian Journal of Industrial Relations, Management and Labour Studies, Sexualities, Sociology Compass, and South Asian Journal of Management. Ghosh has held fellowships from the US Department of State (Fulbright 2012-2013), University of Maastricht, the Netherlands (METEOR Visiting Doctoral Student 2010), XLRI- Xavier School of Management, India (Fellow Program in Management 2009-2013), and the University of California, Irvine (Social Science Merit Fellowship 2015-2021). In addition to doing research, Ghosh teaches upper division undergraduate sociology courses on gender and globalization.

Patti Giuffre is a Professor of Sociology at Texas State University. She conducts research on gender, sexuality, inequality, and work. She has co-authored articles on sexual harassment, gender inequality in workplaces, homophobia in workplaces, "gay-friendly" workplaces, qualitative methods, globalization, women's workplace solidarity, and gender inequality in the culinary industry in Gender & Society, Gender Issues, Sociology Compass, Research in the Sociology of Work, Sexuality Research & Social Policy, Sociology Compass, Sociological Spectrum, and Teaching Sociology. Her recent book, with Deborah A. Harris, Taking the Heat: Women Chefs and Gender Inequality in the Professional Kitchen (2015; Rutgers University Press) examines why the occupation of chef-a job based on the feminized skill of cooking-is male-dominated and considered a masculine occupation.

Diane Grossman received her PhD in Philosophy from New York University, where she was an Ida Parker Bowne Scholar. She is Professor of Women's and Gender Studies and Philosophy at Simmons University, Chair of the Philosophy Department, and Director of the Honors Program. Dr. Grossman has served Simmons as Chair of both departments, as Director of Academic Advising, and as Associate Dean and Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. She is the author of Existentialism and the Philosophical Tradition, Looking at Gay and Lesbian Life, and numerous articles and essays on ethics, feminist theory, and cultural studies. In addition, she is part of a cross-disciplinary research team that studies girls' and women's perceived confidence; the team has published several articles on that subject.

Crystal M. Hayes, MSW, is a PhD candidate at the University of Connecticut School of Social Work. Her research focuses on reproductive justice issues for incarcerated women. Crystal's work promotes the need for gender-responsive, healing-centered, comprehensive reproductive healthcare for incarcerated women. She works closely with human rights groups working to end reproductive oppression globally. Crystal is the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships as well as the author of numerous publications and blogs on related topics.

Sharon Hayes is an Adjunct in the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Griffith University, Brisbane. She has been researching in the areas of criminal justice, criminology, and ethics for the past thirty years and has developed a focused research profile in the areas of sexuality/gender studies, specifically sex and crime, domestic violence and violence against women. Recent books include Romantic Terrorism: An Auto-ethnography of Domestic Violence Victimization and Survival (Palgrave 2015), and Sex Love and Abuse: Discourses on Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault (Palgrave 2014). Sharon is also Co-Curator of the Routledge Critical Studies in...