My background is in cultural anthropology, with work spanning science and technology studies, gender and race, medicine, and bioethics. Most recently, I was Professor of Sexuality, Women’s and Gender Studies at Amherst College; previously, I held appointments at Stanford University, Emory University, Yale University, and the Honors Academy at Brooklyn College, CUNY.

I am the author of Fixing Sex: Intersex, Medical Authority, and Lived Experience and, with Rebecca Jordan-Young, Testosterone: An Unauthorized Biography. I have been a Guggenheim Fellow, and my writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Guardian, Wired, and the New York Review of Books, among others. See About for a longer bio.