Speakers:

Paul Amar serves as Associate Professor in the Global & International Studies Program, with appointments in Feminist Studies and Sociology, at the University of California, Santa Barbara.  His books include the "The Security Archipelago: ‘Human Security’ States, Sexuality Politics and the End of Neoliberalism" (Duke University Press, 2011); "Cairo Cosmopolitan" (2006); "New Racial Missions of Policing" (2010) and "Global South to the Rescue: Emergent Humanitarian Superpowers and Transnational Rescue Industries" (2011).   Amar's research focuses on the transnational and urban dynamics of police militarization, spatial securitization, political liberalization, and social mobilization in the cities of Latin America and the Middle East.

Adam Isaiah Green conducts research at the intersection of the sociology of sexuality, medical sociology, and social theory.  His work on topics ranging from same-sex marriage to queer theory has been published in Theory & Society, Sociological Theory, the Journal of Health and Social Behavior, Social Problems, Gender, Work & Organization, and Sexualities, among others.  Green is currently writing a book on the sexual fields framework which uses a Bourdieusian inspired field theoretic to make sense of sexual stratification. 

Coming Soon

Heather Love is Associate Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania. Her areas of interest include gender studies and queer theory, the literature and culture of modernity, affect studies, film and visual culture, disability studies, psychoanalysis, race and ethnicity, sociology and literature, and critical theory. She is the author of Feeling Backward: Loss and the Politics of Queer History (Harvard, 2007) and the co-editor of a special issue of New Literary History ("Is There Life after Identity Politics?") and of a forthcoming special issue of GLQ about the work of Gayle Rubin ("Rethinking Sex").  She is spending 2010-2011 at the Stanford Humanities Center, where she is working on a book on the source materials for Erving Goffman's 1963 book, Stigma: On the Management of Spoiled Identity ("The Stigma Archive").