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.

Sociology of Gender and Sexuality (SOC 338)

The social, cultural, and historical construction of gender and sexuality; gender and sexual orientation as a mechanism of stratification; the effects of sexism and heterosexism; feminist theory, queer theory, and the intersection of gender, race, class, and nation.