Professor, Department of Sociology,
University of California, Santa Barbara
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley (Sociology)
Contact: Laurel_Westbrook@ucsb.edu
Research and Teaching Interests: Gender, Sexuality, Transgender Studies, Violence, Theory, Social Movements, Media, and Methods
Pronouns: They/them/their
About me
My research and teaching interests include gender, sexuality, violence, transgender studies, social movements, the media, methods, and poststructuralist theory. My current projects focus on the inner workings of the sex/gender/sexuality system. I utilize a range of research methods, including textual analysis, statistical analysis, and interviews to examine how this system shapes and is shaped by understandings of violence, the practices of social movements, and the construction of sociological knowledge.