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.

Major Ideas and Issues in Education (PHIL/SOC 202)

An introduction to the major historical, philosophical, and sociological ideas in American education, including the history of schooling in the United States. Historical threads from a variety of multicultural perspectives will be presented, and philosophical approaches from selected global thinkers will be discussed. The student will be encouraged to develop his/her own unique philosophy of education.