Dr. Ginna Husting earned her Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1998, and joined the faculty of the Department of Sociology at Boise State University in 1999. Her research and teaching interests include gender issues, the news media, social inequality, feminist political theory, conspiracy theorizing, and cultural studies of emotion. Many of the Sociology courses she teaches are cross-listed with Gender Studies. Dr. Husting's research has examined how the phrase “conspiracy theorist” works in the context of political speech, explored French and American nationalism in the context of abortion-related protest, and studied media representations of social protest and the resulting implications for democratic political action. She is active in a number of professional sociology associations, including the American and Pacific Sociological Associations, the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction, and the Society for the Study of Social Problems.