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.

The Black Middle Class: Progress, Prospects, and Puzzles

This article documents the size and growth of the black middle class at the beginning of the 21st century, analyzing data from the US Census and the Current Population Survey on income, occupations, and education. We examine barriers to further growth of the black middle class, assessing theories of marriageability and imbalances in the numbers … Read more