Book Forum

Author of Ch9. “Embodied Vulnerability and Sensemaking with Solidarity Activists,” Chandra Russo is Associate Professor of Sociology at Colgate University, where she teaches courses in social movements and activism, the body, and (anti)racism. Her book Solidarity in Practice (Cambridge University Press, 2018) examines how justice-seeking solidarity drives activist communities contesting US torture, militarism, and immigration policies …

Author of Ch8. “Black Girls’ Bodies and Belonging in the Classroom,” Brittney Miles is a PhD candidate in Sociology at the University of Cincinnati, where she is an Albert C. Yates fellow. She has completed a graduate certificate in Women’s Gender and Sexuality Studies […] Her scholarship centers Black girlhood, specifically in the areas of sexuality …

Author of Ch7. “‘You are not the Body’: (Re)Interpreting the Body in and through Integral Yoga,” Erin F. Johnston is Senior Research Associate in the Department of Sociology at Duke University, where she leads qualitative data collection and analysis for the Clergy Health Initiative’s “Seminary to Early Ministry (SEM)” study, the first longitudinal study of …

Author of Ch6. “Beauty, Breasts, and Meaning after Mastectomy,” Piper Sledge is Associate Professor of Sociology and Director of the Gender and Sexuality Studies Program at Bryn Mawr College. Her research and teaching interests include gender, race, and embodiment. Dr. Sledge’s first book, Bodies Unbound: Gender-Specific Cancer and Biolegitimacy (Rutgers University Press, 2021) is a comparative …

Author of Ch5. “Reinterpreting Male Bodies and Health in Crisis Times: From ‘Obesity’ to Bigger Matters,” Lee F. Monaghan is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Limerick, Ireland. He mainly teaches the Sociology of Health and Illness, Classical and Contemporary Sociological Theory, and The Sociology of the Body. He has researched and published on …

Co-author of Ch4. “Gender on the Post-Colony: Phenomenology, Race and the Body in Nervous Conditions,” Mrinalini Greedharry is Associate Professor in the Department of English at Laurentian University, Canada. Her research focuses on how the practices, organization, and theory of studying English literature engender postcolonial subjects, which builds on her longstanding interest in the ways that …

Co-author of Ch4. “Gender on the Post-Colony: Phenomenology, Race and the Body in Nervous Conditions,” Sweta Rajan-Rankin is Senior Lecturer at the School of Social Policy Sociology and Social Research (SSPSSR), Division of Law Society and Social Justice at the University of Kent. Her research investigates embodiment and racialized belongings in a range of areas, including …

Co-author of Ch3. “Interpreting Africa’s Seselelãme: Bodily Ways of Knowing in a Globalized World,” Sefakor G.M.A. Komabu-Pomeyie holds a PhD in Educational Leadership and Policy Studies from the University of Vermont, where she currently teaches their online “Global Disability Studies” course, which serves a national constituency. Her research focuses on the shortcomings and idiosyncrasies that …

Co-author of Ch3. “Interpreting Africa’s Seselelãme: Bodily Ways of Knowing in a Globalized World,” Kathryn Linn Geurts is Professor of Anthropology and Chair of the Global and Area Studies Department at Hamline University in Saint Paul, Minnesota. Her research focuses on investigating bodily experience—not through a Western lens but through a West African perspective …

Author of Ch2. “Thinking the Molecular,” Ben Spatz is a nonbinary scholar-practitioner working at the intersections of artistic research and critical race and gender theory. They are a leader in the development of new audiovisual embodied research methods and produce scholarly writing, video essays, and video art. Spatz is Reader in Media and Performance at …