I am a feminist medical sociologist and SUNY Distinguished Professor at Purchase College, State University of New York. I live in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. I'm the mom of three. We also live with a springy rescue rat terrier named Ziggy. My work examines human bodies, body parts and fluids in sociocultural contexts. I have written about human sperm, genital anatomy, and human breast milk. I've also been deeply fortunately to teach in the Bedford Hills College Program for the past several years. For three years, Mary Kosut and I worked together studying urban beekeepers and bees in New York City. Buzz: Urban Beekeeping and the Power of the Bee was published in November, 2013. In 2018 I published a book about North American Horseshoe Crabs entitled Catch and Release: The Enduring, yet Vulnerable, Horseshoe Crab and now available from New York University Press. My most recent book is Our Transgenic Future: Spider Goats, Genetic Modification, and the Will to Change Nature, published in 2022 by NYU Press. Next up a project on Tugboats.
