Negotiating Sex Work: Unintended Consequences of Policy and Activism

Contributors

· 311 · Contributors CHERYL AUGER is finishing her PhD in political science at the University of Toronto. Her dissertation examines sex work policy and policy debates. SARAH BEER received an MA in criminology and women’s studies from the University of Ottawa and a PhD in sociology from the University of Windsor. She is a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Windsor and an instructor of sociology at Dawson College in Montréal, Québec. MICHELE TRACY BERGER received a PhD in political science from the University of Michigan. She is associate professor in the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of North Carolina– Chapel Hill and is the author of Workable Sisterhood: The Political Journey of Stigmatized Women with HIV/AIDS. THADDEUS GREGORY BLANCHETTE has a PhD in anthropology from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro and is a professor at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. He studies “gringos,” prostitution, sexual tourism, and the trafficking of women in Brazil and has written on these topics for academic and popular magazines in Brazil and the United States. RAVEN BOWEN is an MA candidate in criminology at Simon Fraser University. Her research focuses on sex work exit, reentry, and duality. She founded a number of sex worker organizations and programs in Vancouver and has many community-based publications to her credit. In 2005, members of the sex working community named a service award after her that is given annually to those who provide outstanding support to sex industry workers. She received the inaugural Naked Truth Lifetime Achievement Award in 2011. 312 CONTRIBUTORS GREGG BUCKEN-KNAPP received his PhD from George Washington University in Washington, D.C. and is associate professor in the School of Public Administration, University of Gothenburg, Sweden. His work has most recently appeared in the Journal of European Public Policy and Human Rights Review. His research for the Nordic Prostitution Policy Reform Project is funded by the Swedish Research Council. ANA PAULA DA SILVA holds a PhD in anthropology from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro and is a visiting professor at the Federal University of Viçosa, where she is investigating foreign men’s attitudes toward Brazilian women. She also works as a consultant and has published several articles in Brazilian and American academic journals regarding prostitution , race, and the trafficking of women. VALERIE FELDMAN is a PhD candidate in sociology at the University of California–Davis. Her research uses organizational field analysis to examine the contemporary governance of prostitution and sex trafficking in the United States. GREGOR GALL is professor of industrial relations at the University of Bradford and a columnist for the Morning Star, the daily paper of the labor movement in Britain, as well a regular contributor to the Scotsman newspaper. He runs a subscription-based research service for unions. Among his books are Sex Worker Union Organising: An International Study, An Agency of Their Own: Sex Worker Union Organising, and four edited volumes on union organizing. KATHLEEN GUIDROZ received a master of public administration degree from Louisiana State University and a PhD in sociology from George Washington University. She is an adjunct professor at Georgetown University. ANNIE HILL completed her PhD in the Department of Rhetoric at the University of California–Berkeley. She is assistant professor in the Department of Communication Studies at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. She has been a visiting scholar at the Institute of Criminology at the University of Cambridge and an empirical legal studies fellow through Berkeley’s Center for the Study of Law and Society. CONTRIBUTORS 313 JOHAN KARLSSON SCHAFFER received his PhD in political science from the University of Gothenburg. He is a researcher at the Norwegian Centre for Human Rights, University of Oslo. His recent publications include articles in Review of International Studies and Human Rights Review. EDITH KINNEY received a JD from Berkeley Law and completed her PhD in jurisprudence and social policy at the University of California– Berkeley. She is a visiting assistant professor in the Social Sciences Division at Mills College in Oakland, California. Her work has appeared in the Berkeley Journal of Gender, Law, and Justice. YASMIN LALANI completed her PhD at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto. Her research examines the gender politics of HIV/AIDS curricula used by female activist-educators in the Amazon region of Peru. PIA LEVIN received an MA in...