Professor Jodie Lawston
Jodie M. Lawston is Professor of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies at California State University, San Marcos, and Faculty Director of Community Engaged Scholarship in the Division of Community Engagement. She holds a BA from the State University of New York at Stony Brook, and an MA and PhD in sociology from the University of California, San Diego. Her books include Sisters Outside: Radical Activists Working for Women Prisoners (State University of New York Press 2009), Razor Wire Women: Prisoners, Activists, Scholars and Artists, co-edited with Ashley Lucas, and In Between the Shadows of Citizenship: Mixed Status Families, co-edited with April Shueths (University of Washington Press 2015). Her introduction to sociology textbook, Sociology: Structure and Change, was published by Pearson in 2018. She teaches courses such as Introduction to Sociology, Gender and Violence, LGBTQ Identities and Incarceration, Race, Class, and Gender in Contemporary Societies, and Popular Culture.