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Graduate Student

• Affiliation(s)

  • Women's Studies

• Fields of Study

  • Culture and Knowledge
  • Gender and Sexuality

• About

  I am broadly interested in the ways that individual experiences of pain are translated into cultural knowledge and processes. I look specifically at the intersection of law and sexuality. For my dissertation, I am examining the process through which male sexual victimization becomes understood as a social problem in the US legal field. I analyze the ways that police officers, prosecutors, defense attorneys, survivors, juries, and the media make sense of male rape. In addition, I look at the legal statutes and maneuvers that have been deployed in previous cases of male rape. I hope to insert sexual identity into the sexual violence literature and offer a more robust theorization of the intersection of law and sexuality than what currently exists.    Previous research examined moral panics about sexual trafficking. I looked at the ways that the transnational circulation of sensational narratives escalate Western anxieties about trafficking without actually resolving human rights violations.

• Education

  • M.A. San Francisco State University, 2006
  • B.A. Indiana University, 2002

• Research Areas of Interest

  • Law & Sociology, Sex & Gender, Sexualities