A Professor of Sociology and Coordinator of the Sociology Program at York College, City University of New York.
Their research focuses on gender and sexuality, with particular emphasis on BDSM, sex work, and feminist approaches to power and inequality. They teach courses in research methods, sociology of gender and sexuality, and advanced field research, as well as special topics courses on contemporary social justice movements, the sociology of human rights, and intersectional feminist theory.

Featuring thirty-one original essays by sex workers, advocates, researchers, and activists, Sex Work Today is the first compilation of research on new forms of digital sex such as camming, sugar dating, and AI sex dolls. Providing a lens to understand contemporary labor dynamics and the nature of sex work itself, this collection captures formerly ignored aspects of the sex industry including: fatphobia and disability; transmasculine and nonbinary sex workers; racialized emotional labor in the digital sex industry; high job satisfaction among professional dominatrixes; and sex worker scholars.

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