Research Interests
Professor Arlene Stein's research interests include sexual politics, social movements, political culture, trauma, gender, and collective memory.
Biographical Notes
Arlene Stein is Distinguished Professor of Sociology and a member of the graduate faculty of the Women’s and Gender Studies program at Rutgers. The director of the Institute for Research on Women, she is the author or editor of nine books. Her research focuses on gender, sexuality, culture, and politics. She teaches courses on the sociology of gender and sexuality, culture, self and society, trauma and memory, and writing within and beyond academia.
Her latest book is Unbound: Transgender Men and the Transformation of Identity. She is also the author of The Stranger Next Door, an ethnography of a Christian conservative campaign against LGBT rights, which explores clashing understandings of religion and sexuality in American culture; it received the Ruth Benedict Book Award. Reluctant Witnesses: Survivors, Descendants, and the Rise of Holocaust Consciousness looks at how children of survivors became narrators of their parents’ stories of genocide. Going Public: A Guide for Social Scientists (J. Daniels, coauthor), is a guidebook for publicly engaged scholars. She received the American Sociological Association’s Simon and Gagnon Award for career contributions to the study of sexualities. You can follow her at twitter @SteinArlene.
