Author Stephanie Sears

Stephanie Sears, 2020–21 Lane Center Social Justice Scholar, is an associate professor of sociology. She earned her PhD in African American studies and sociology from Yale University. As an interdisciplinary scholar, her research examines the ways race, class, gender, sexuality, and generation intersect and interact in complex and contradictory ways, often simultaneously reproducing oppression and facilitating empowerment. Her current research, Dance Lessons, builds upon these interests and asks how race, class, gender, and sexuality are performed and negotiated via dance.