Margot Weiss is associate professor of anthropology and American studies at Wesleyan University, where she directs the cluster in Queer Studies. Major publications include the award-winning Techniques of Pleasure: BDSM and the Circuits of Sexuality (Duke University Press, 2011) and Queer Anthropology: Critical Genealogies and Decolonizing Futures (Duke, forthcoming). Her current research explores the politics of knowledge production in queer left activism, queer theory, and anthropology.











