Dr. Kristen Barber received her Ph.D. from the University of Southern California and is Associate Professor of Sociology at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale. She is serving as Director of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and as Editor of the journal, Men and Masculinities (beginning January 2020). Barber's research focuses on how race, class, and sexuality shape gender inequality in work and organizations, in cultural production, and in everyday interactions and identity construction. A qualitative scholar who conducts boots-on-the-ground research, Barber's work appears in Gender & Society, Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Mobilization, and Sociological Spectrum, among other journals, and has been reprinted in popular anthologies. She is co-author of the textbook, Gendered Worlds, 4th Edition, published August 2019 by Oxford University Press.
Barber is also currently Co-Editor of the Culture Section for Contexts, a publication of the American Sociological Association, and has served as an Editorial Board Member of Gender & Society, as an elected council member for the ASA's Section on Sex and Gender, and as a grant reviewer for the National Science Foundation. She is current Chair for the American Sociological Association's Section on Race, Gender, and Class and has also been nominated to the ASA Jessie Bernard Award Selection Committee to serve January 2020-December 2022.
Barber is also currently Co-Editor of the Culture Section for Contexts, a publication of the American Sociological Association, and has served as an Editorial Board Member of Gender & Society, as an elected council member for the ASA's Section on Sex and Gender, and as a grant reviewer for the National Science Foundation. She is current Chair for the American Sociological Association's Section on Race, Gender, and Class and has also been nominated to the ASA Jessie Bernard Award Selection Committee to serve January 2020-December 2022.