Professor Margot Weiss has taught at Wesleyan University since 2008, in the departments of American Studies and Anthropology, with an affiliation in Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. She established Wesleyan’s Clusters in Disability Studies (in 2010) and Queer Studies (in 2013), and she chairs the GLASS Prize, awarded yearly for the best undergraduate research and writing in queer and trans studies. Before coming to Wesleyan, Margot Weiss taught at the College of William and Mary, Duke University, Sweet Briar College, and Sonoma State University.

Professor Weiss offers courses in queer theory, the anthropology of sexuality and gender, ethnographic methods, and social theory. Recent courses include: “Global Queer Studies,” “Theory in Anthropology: Anthropology of Affect,” “Queer Theories,” “Social Norms/Social Power” (a first year seminar), “Queer Activism and Radical Scholarship,” “Social Movements Lab,” “Crafting Ethnography” (an ethnographic methods course), “Sex, Money, and Power,” “Reading Ethnography: Toward an Otherwise Anthropology,” and “Politics of the Body,” a course she taught simultaneously on Wesleyan’s campus and at York Correctional Institute in Niantic, CT.

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