GENDER BEFORE THE GENDER TURN

My work is especially interested in two combinations: combining empirical research with theoretical reflection and connecting economic systems to gender and sexuality. I've taken these bridging projects in a few directions:

• ethnographic fieldwork in Bangkok, Thailand, with interest in the Southeast Asian region (on hiatus since Covid19); 
• Science & Technology Studies (STS), e.g., projects on medical tourism, infrastructure, and standardization;
• a political economy of sex/gender, or queer political economy (QPE)
• rigorous conceptualization of keywords, such as intimacy, infrastructure, or the history of gender itself. 
• the history of the scholarly fields of Anthropology and Women's/Gender/Feminist Studies
• transnational networks relevant to sex/gender, e.g., the UN-NGO orbit and the World Social Forum;

I have taught a range of undergraduate courses in Gender Studies and regularly teach Money/Sex/Power and Nature/Nurture-Sex/Gender, team taught with a neurobiologist. I co-ran a project on Transgender Studies and helped initiate GSF's courses on Introduction to Transgender Studies and Digital Feminism.

I have taught graduate seminars in core feminist areas (feminist theory; transnational feminist theory; research design; sexuality studies) as well as topical courses on Infrastructure; The 1970s (team taught); and Care Economies (team taught). While serving as the DGS for GSF for a number of years, I enjoyed mentoring graduate students on dissertation writing and entering the unnerving market for jobs and fellowships.