Roger N. Lancaster

Roger Lancaster is the author of "Sex Panic and the Punitive State" (2011) and several other books, including "Life is Hard: Machismo, Danger, and the Intimacy of Power in Nicaragua" (1992), which won the C. Wright Mills Award and the Ruth Benedict Prize, and "The Trouble with Nature: Sex in Science and Popular Culture" (2003). These works try to understand how sexual mores, racial hierarchies, and class predicaments interact in a volatile world. Lancaster is currently professor of anthropology and cultural studies at George Mason University.