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Margot Weiss is an Associate Professor of American Studies and Anthropology at
Wesleyan, where she has taught since 2008. She is a cultural anthropologist who brings
ethnographic methodology informed by feminist and queer theory to the study of sexuality.
She teaches courses in the anthropology of sexuality and gender, queer studies, and
social theory. 

Margot Weiss is the author of Techniques of Pleasure: BDSM and the Circuits of Sexuality
(Duke University Press, 2011), which won the 2012 Ruth Benedict Book Prize in queer
anthropology and was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award. Her current book project,
"Visions of Sexual Justice," explores radical political desire at a time of
economic crisis. She has published essays on on method in queer anthropology; on the
politics of BDSM media visibility; on labor, leisure, and commodified sexuality; on BDSM
interrogation scenes and the Abu Ghraib photographs; and on neoliberalism,
homonormativity, and new queer activisms. Her forum on “Academia and Activism: Left
Intellectuals and the Neoliberal University” appeared in American Quarterly.At Wesleyan,
she teaches courses in the anthropology of sexuality and gender, queer studies, and
social theory. 

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