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Expert Directory
The following scholars, writers, and editors are available to members of the media to talk about their work in this area. Following is information about their background, special interests, and preferred manner of contact. Listed email addresses should be copied into an email client, replacing "at" with "@".
Nancy Abrams
Nancy Abrams is the pen name of a journalist living in New England. In telling one woman's story, The Other Mother makes a solid case for legal protections, including marriage, for lesbian and gay families.
Contact
Email: tz11 at aol.com
Julia M. Allen
Julia M. Allen is Professor Emerita of English at Sonoma State University.
Contact
Fran Keneston, Director ofMarketing and Publicity
SUNY Press
Email: fran.keneston at sunypress.edu
Amanda K. Baumle
Amanda K. Baumle is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Houston and the author of Demography in Transition: Emerging Trends in Population Studies.
See also D’Lane Compton and Dudley L. Poston Jr., coauthors ofSame-Sex Partners
Contact
Fran Keneston, Director ofMarketing and Publicity
SUNY Press
Email: fran.keneston at sunypress.edu
Jackie M. Blount
Jackie M. Blount is a Professor in the School of Educational Policy and Leadership at the Ohio State University and the author of Destined to Rule the Schools: Women and the Superintendency, 1873–1995, also published by SUNY Press.
Contact
Fran Keneston, Director ofMarketing and Publicity
SUNY Press
Email: fran.keneston at sunypress.edu
Kevin Bourassa and Joe Varnell
Authors of Just Married: Gay Marriage and the Expansion of Human Rights. Kevin Bourassa was raised in Ontario, France, and Germany and moved to Toronto in 1976. He is in banking and specializes in process management. Joe Varnell is a Toronto native and works for an electronics company. They were married by a church in Canada in 2001 and issued a marriage license, setting off a series of court battles.
Contact
Email: kevinbourassa at hotmail.com, joe_varnell at hotmail.com
Marla Brettschneider
At the University of New Hampshire, Marla Brettschneider is Associate Professor of Political Philosophy, holds a joint appointment in Political Science and Women’s Studies, and is Coordinator of Queer Studies. She is the author of several books, including Democratic Theorizing from the Margins.
Contact
Fran Keneston, Director ofMarketing and Publicity
SUNY Press
Email: fran.keneston at sunypress.edu
Cynthia Burack
Cynthia Burack is Associate Professor of Women’s Studies at the Ohio State University. She is the author of Healing Identities: Black Feminist Thought and the Politics of Groups and coeditor (with Jyl J. Josephson) of Fundamental Differences: Feminists Talk Back to Social Conservatives.
Contact
Fran Keneston, Director ofMarketing and Publicity
SUNY Press
Email: fran.keneston at sunypress.edu
D'Lane Compton
D’Lane Compton is a doctoral candidate at Texas A&M University.
See also Amanda K. Baumle and Dudley L. Poston Jr., coauthors ofSame-Sex Partners
Contact
Fran Keneston, Director ofMarketing and Publicity
SUNY Press
Email: fran.keneston at sunypress.edu
Evan Gerstmann
After graduating with honors from the University of Michigan Law school in 1986, Evan Gerstmann practiced law in New York City for five years. Subsequently, he completed his Masters and Ph.D. in Political Science at the University of Wisconsin. He studies the interaction between law and politics. He has published a book on constitutional law, The Constitutional Class: Gays, Lesbians and the Failure of Class-Based Equal Protection, as well as articles on subjects ranging from freedom of speech to how criminal law affects victims of domestic violence.
Contact
Phone: (310) 338-3004
Email: egerstma at lmu.edu
Rabbi Steven Greenberg
Rabbi Steven Greenberg, author of Wrestling with God and Men: Homosexuality in the Jewish Tradition, is a senior teaching fellow at CLAL, the National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership in New York City.
Contact
Email: stevegreenberg at nyc.rr.com
Jennifer M. Lehmann
Jennifer M. Lehmann is an associate professor of sociology and women’s studies at the University of Nebraska. She is the author of Deconstructing Durkheim and Durkheim and Women (Nebraska 1994) and the editor of Current Perspectives in Social Theory.
Contact
Department of Sociology
737 Oldfather Hall
Lincoln, Nebraska 68588-0324
Phone: (402) 472-3631
Email: jmlehmann at msn.com
Craig M. Loftin
Craig M. Loftin is Lecturer in American Studies at California State University, Fullerton.
Contact
Fran Keneston, Director ofMarketing and Publicity
SUNY Press
Email: fran.keneston at sunypress.edu
Tim Miller
Performance artist and freelance writer, gay rights activist Tim Miller has focused his creative and political work on addressing the injustices facing lesbian and gay couples in America. His performance piece Glory Box is an exploration of same-sex marriage and the struggle for immigration rights for lesbian and gay bi-national couples. Glory Box recounts the trials Miller has been forced to undergo in trying to keep his Australian partner in the United States.
Tim Miller is the author of the book Shirts & Skin and his performance texts have appeared in the play collections O Solo Homo and Sharing the Delirium. He teaches performance at the University of California, Los Angeles, School of Theater and is co-founder of Performance Space 122 in New York City and Highways Performance Space in Santa Monica, California.
Contact
Email: millertale at aol.com
Shelley M. Park
Shelley M. Park is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Humanities at the University of Central Florida.
Contact
Fran Keneston, Director ofMarketing and Publicity
SUNY Press
Email: fran.keneston at sunypress.edu
Dudley L. Poston Jr.
Dudley L. Poston Jr. is Professor of Sociology and George T. and Gladys H. Abell Professor of Liberal Arts at Texas A&M University. He is the author or editor of many books, including (with Michael Micklin) Handbook of Population.
See also Amanda K. Baumle and D'Lane Compton, coauthors ofSame-Sex Partners
Contact
Fran Keneston, Director ofMarketing and Publicity
SUNY Press
Email: fran.keneston at sunypress.edu
Valerie Rohy
Valerie Rohy is Associate Professor of English at the University of Vermont. She is the author of Impossible Women: Lesbian Figures and American Literature and the coeditor (with Elizabeth Ammons) of American Local Color Writing, 1880–1920.
Contact
Fran Keneston, Director ofMarketing and Publicity
SUNY Press
Email: fran.keneston at sunypress.edu
Michelangelo Signorile
Michelangelo Signorile, author of Queer in America: Sex, the Media, and the Closets of Power, is a syndicated columnist and lives in New York City.
Contact
Email: mike at signorile.com
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