Laurel Westbrook

Laurel Westbrook is a Professor of Sociology at Grand Valley State University. They are the author of Unlivable Lives: Violence and Identity in Transgender Activism (University of California Press, 2021), and co-editor of Introducing the New Sexuality Studies: Original Essays (Routledge, 2022). Their scholarship has also been published in Social Problems, Gender & Society, and Sexualities, among other journals, and has been recognized with multiple awards from the American Sociological Association and the Society for the Study of Social Problems. They are co-founder and former co-chair of Sociologists for Trans Justice.