Margot Danielle Weiss

Margot Weiss is a cultural anthropologist whose work explores the relationship between queer sexual cultures and US neoliberal capitalism. Professor Weiss has conducted fieldwork across the US (San Francisco, New York, and Chicago) and in Montreal and Berlin; her major research projects explore the gendered, racialized, and class politics of BDSM in the San Francisco Bay Area; the politics of left intellectuals in the neoliberal US academy; and the political-intellectual work of queer left activists in New York, Chicago, and Montreal. Her scholarship seeks to better understand the relationship between sexuality and economy, to explore the analytical and methodological promises and challenges of queer anthropology, to rethink taken-for-granted queer and feminist sex politics, and to open new possibilities for queer and ethnographic epistemology in and outside institutional knowledge production.