Sarah Wilcox

BA, Wesleyan University. MA, PhD, University of Pennsylvania. Areas of expertise include medical sociology, the sociology of science and knowledge, gender and sexuality, and the mass media; special interests in interactions among experts, laypersons, and social movements; current project, entitled “Claiming Knowledge: Gay Communities, Science, and the Meaning of Genes,” explores how ideas about biology and sexuality have been produced, circulated, contested, and negotiated within and outside of science; recipient of GLAAD Center for the Study of Media & Society grant for research on coverage of the politics of sexuality in regional media; taught at the University of Maine and Kent State University; recent articles in Critical Studies in Media Communication and the American Journal of Public Health. SLC, 2005–