A Professor of Sociology and Coordinator of the Sociology Program at York College, City University of New York.

Their research focuses on gender and sexuality, with particular emphasis on BDSM, sex work, and feminist approaches to power and inequality. They teach courses in research methods, sociology of gender and sexuality, and advanced field research, as well as special topics courses on contemporary social justice movements, the sociology of human rights, and intersectional feminist theory.

Social Research Methods I (ANTH/SOC 220)

Introduction to the logic of inquiry; qualitative and quantitative methods of data collection and analysis; introduction to statistical analysis; writing and interpreting research reports; using computers for statistical analysis. Experimental, survey, and ethnographic methods will be emphasized.