Notes on Contributors

Irma Arriagada is a Chilean Sociologist and Visiting Researcher at the Women's Studies Centre (CEM) and an international consultant for the United Nations. Arriagada worked at United Nations, Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) from 1993 to 2008 and has published more than 70 papers and edited 5 books. Recent publications: "The Social Organization of Care in Chile" co-author Francisca Miranda in Care and Care Workers. A Latin American Perspective, Nadya Araujo y Helena Hirata (eds.) Springer (in press) "Changes and Inequalities in Latin American Families", in Judy Treas, Jacqueline Scott, and Martin Richards, The Sociology of Families, Wiley-Blackwell books, Cambridge, England, 2014.

Courtney P. Benjamin received her PhD in Cultural Studies and Social Thought in Education program at Washington State University. She is Associate Editor for the Western Journal of Black Studies, and Research Assistant for NSF-funded ADVANCE at WSU. Her work illuminates how gender intersects with race and social class, and she is particularly interested in the critical inquiry and discourse analyses of STEM participation at both the K-12 and higher education level.

Pamela Bettis is a faculty member in the Cultural Studies and Social Thought in Education doctoral program at Washington State University (U.S.A.). Her research explores the intersection of gender, race, youth cultures and schooling with the goal of constructing more equitable schooling experiences for all youth/adults. She is particularly interested in the common sense discourses of gender and race found in everyday social practices and popular culture.

Linda M. Blum, Professor of Sociology at Northeastern University (Boston, US), is the author of Between Feminism and Labor: The Significance of the Comparable Worth Movement (1991); At the Breast: Ideologies of Breastfeeding and Motherhood in the Contemporary United States (1999); and Raising Generation Rx: Mothering Kids with Invisible Disabilities in an Age of Inequality (2015), the 2016 Outstanding Publication of the Disability and Society Section of the American Sociological Association.

Donna Bobbitt-Zeher is Associate Professor of Sociology at The Ohio State University. Her research focuses on contemporary gender inequality, with an emphasis on workplace discrimination and later life consequences of gender differences in schooling.

Mary Buchanan is a doctoral candidate in the Geography Department of the University of Connecticut. Her research focuses on exploring alternative landscape futures for sustainable agriculture in New England.

Almudena Cabezas González is a Lecturer in Political Geography in the Department of History, Theories and Political Geography and School of Political Sciences and Sociology at UCM, Madrid. She received her PhD in Political Science in 2008. Her research focuses on regionalism, feminist geopolitics, gender and Latin American studies. She is a member of "Space & Power" Research Team.

Maria Charles is Professor of Sociology, Director of the Broom Demography Center, and faculty affiliate of Feminist Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her research explores how and why gender-based inequalities differ across national and historical contexts. Charles is an elected member of the Sociological Research Association and recipient of numerous research awards and grants for her comparative work on gender segregation and gender belief systems around the world.

Jennifer E. Cossyleon PhD, is a Policy Advisor at Community Change through the Mellon/ ACLS Public Fellowship program. Cossyleon studies urban poverty and inequality, grassroots social movements among marginalized groups, and the social effects of mobilization on families and communities. Some of her work has been published in Socius, Sociological Forum, City & Community, Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, and The Sociological Quarterly.

Sara P. Dı&c.acute;az is an associate professor of Women's and Gender Studies at Gonzaga University in Spokane, Washington. Using feminist cultural studies of science, Díaz studies the complex relationships between science, gender, race, and the politics of the body. Her current scholarship examines the intersections of fatness, disability, and chronic illness. builds on U.S. third world feminist theories to examine the intellectual survival strategies used by women of color scientists. Her other scholarly interests include gender, race and twentieth-century science; feminist cultural studies of health sciences, feminist research ethics; feminist epistemologies; feminist environmental justice; and critical mixed race studies.

Kolbe Franklin is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Sociology at the University at Albany - SUNY where she teaches courses on gender and sexualities. She is currently conducting research for her dissertation titled, "Queering Sexual Development Frameworks: A Dynamic Systems Approach to Conceptualizing Other-Sex Sexuality Among Lesbians" which focuses on the experiences of lesbians who engage in relationships with cisgender and transgender men.

Audrey S. Gadzekpo, Ph.D., is Associate Professor at the Department of Communication Studies, University of Ghana and Dean of the School of Information and Communication Studies. She has years of experience in teaching, research and advocacy on media, gender and governance, as well as practical experience as a media practitioner. Her recent publications on gender include: Media and Gender Socialization (2016) in The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Gender and Sexuality Studies. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing Ltd; Establishing the Presence of Women in Ghanaian Media History (2015) in Ansu-Kyeremeh, K., Gadzekpo A. and Amoakohene, M. (eds.), A Critical Appraisal of Communication Theory and Practice in Ghana. University of Ghana Reader Series.

Markus Gerke is a PhD candidate in the department of Sociology at Stony Brook University and a research associate at the Institute of Sports Science at Justus-Liebig-Universität in Gießen, Germany.

Phoebe Godfrey, PhD, is an Associate Professor in Residence of Sociology at UConn and teaches courses on food, climate change, sustainability and social justice.

Eun-Jeong Han received a Ph.D. in Communication from the Washington State University. She is Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication arts at Salisbury University, MD. The main area of her research and teaching is Intercultural Communication. is diversity and social justice in a global context. Specifically, her research interests include the issues of; 1) multiculturalism and diversity in contemporary Korean society, 2) Korean diaspora 3) Asian-Americans in the U.S., and 4) stereotypes and prejudices against minorities.

Emily Kaufman is an undergraduate honors student at the University of Connecticut majoring in Environmental Studies and Sociology with a minor in Geographic Information Systems. Specifically, her areas of interest are environmental justice education and sustainability.

Cristina Khan is a lecturer in the Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Department at SUNY Stony Brook. She earned her PhD from the Department of Sociology at the University of Connecticut. Her specializations include race & ethnicity, embodiment, sexualities, and qualitative research methods. Her dissertation, "Undoing Borders: A Feminist Exploration of Erotic Performance by Lesbian Women of Color," draws on two years of ethnographic fieldwork and 40 in-depth interviews with a collective of lesbian exotic dancers, uncovering how race and sexuality, together, shape women's potential to enact agency over the conditions of their participation in exotic dance. She is co-author of "Race and Sexuality" (Polity Press 2018).

Dustin Kidd, PhD, is a pop culture expert and a professor in the sociology department at Temple University. His research examines film, television, fiction, social media, comics, video games, music, and the arts, focusing on both inequalities and the ways marginalized groups use media to challenge those inequalities. He is the author of the books Social Media Freaks, Pop Culture Freaks, and Legislating Creativity.

Anna Kuxhausen is Associate Professor of History at St. Olaf College. She is the author of From the Womb to the Body Politic: Raising the Nation in Enlightenment Russia (University of Wisconsin Press, 2013). Her current project seeks to make visible the history of LGBTQ people and communities in modern Russia.

Melanie Lee earned her PhD in Rhetoric and Composition and her Graduate Certificate in Women's and Gender Studies from Ohio University. As Assistant Professor at the University of Southern Indiana, she studies the social construction of masculinized L/logos and teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in rhetoric and composition histories, pedagogies, and theory as well as gender studies.

Cliff Leek is an assistant professor of Sociology at the University of Northern Colorado and president of the American Men's Studies Association.

Daniela Mansbach, PhD, is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Wisconsin-Superior. Her work on gender, activism and resistance has been published in multiple journals,...