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, 2006).
Cynthia Deitch is an Associate Professor of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies; of Sociology; and of Public Policy & Public Administration at the George Washington University. She received a PhD in Sociology from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. She has been teaching a graduate seminar in feminist methodologies for several decades. She has published research on gender and various public policies, on gender and race in the labor market, and on workplace sexual harassment.
Manisha Desai is Head of the Sociology Department and Professor of Sociology and Asian and Asian American Studies at the University of Connecticut. Her research and teaching areas include gender and globalization, transnational feminisms, and contemporary Indian society. Among her recent publications are Subaltern Movements in India: The Gendered Geography of Struggles Against Neoliberal Development in India (Routledge, 2016) and, with Rachel Rinaldo, guest editor of the special issue of Qualitative Sociology on “Gender and Globalization.”
Valeria Esquivel is Senior Employment Policies and Gender Officer at the International Labour Office, based in Geneva. Before joining the United Nations in 2014, Valeria developed a long academic career as feminist economist, publishing extensively on labor, and macroeconomic and social policies. She coedited Gender & Development’s issue devoted to the Sustainable Development Goals (Vol. 24, No. 1, 2016) and is the editor of the collective volume La Economía Feminista desde América Latina: Una hoja de ruta sobre los debates actuales en la región (ONU Mujeres, Santo Domingo, 2012). Her latest publications have focused primarily on care policies and care‐workers. She coauthored the reports Innovations in Care: New Concepts, New Actors, New Policies (Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, 2017) and Care work and care jobs for the future of decent work (ILO, 2018). Her current research focuses on the intersections of gender, employment, and macroeconomics.
Sheila Greene is a Fellow Emerita at Trinity College Dublin (TCD), Ireland, and former AIB Professor of Childhood Research. She is a cofounder of the TCD Centre for Gender and Women's Studies and cofounder and former Director of the Children's Research Centre. Currently she is a Pro‐Chancellor of the University of Dublin. Her primary interest is in developmental psychology and her publications include The Psychological Development of Girls and Women (Routledge, 2003/2015), Researching Children's Experience (Greene and Hogan, Sage, 2005), Key Thinkers in Childhood Studies (Smith and Greene, Policy Press, 2015), and Children as Agents in Their Worlds (Greene and Nixon, Routledge, 2020).
Diane Grossman received her BA from Vassar College and her PhD in Philosophy from New York University, where she was an Ida Parker Bowne Scholar. She is Professor of Women's and
