Margot Weiss
is Associate Professor of American Studies and Anthropology at Wesleyan University, where she directs the cluster in Queer Studies
. Her research, teaching, and writing move between queer theory and anthropology.
She is the author
of the award-winning Techniques of Pleasure: BDSM and the Circuits of Sexuality and editor of
Queer Then and Now and Unsettling Queer Anthropology: Foundations, Reorientations, and Departures
.
Past president of the Association for Queer Anthropology (AQA), she serves on the board of CLAGS: The Center for LGBTQ Studies and the Society for Cultural Anthropology (SCA). She cofounded the Wesleyan University Chapter of the AAUP.