MC Whitlock is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Georgia Southwestern State University. She graduated with her PhD in August 2017. She is a critical sociologist who specializes in sexualities, intersectionalities, and social movements. Her dissertation, “Examining Forty Years Of The Social Organization Of Feminisms: Ethnography Of Two Women’s Bookstores In The US South,” examines feminist bookstores in the US South, with an emphasis on race and queerness, in order to understand the challenges of intersectional and white feminist community building. She has been awarded research grants from Duke University and University of South Florida. In addition to research, she is firmly committed to teaching. She has taught Introduction to Sociology, Intersectionality, Social Problems, Introduction to Interdisciplinary Social Sciences, Gender and Society, Human Sexual Behavior, and Sociology of Sexualities. She earned the Department of Sociology Distinguished Teaching Award in 2013.
AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION: Gender and Sexualities, Collective Behavior, Social Movements, Feminist Theories, Race and Class Inequalities, Bodies, and Intersectionality