Mary Bernstein and Kristine A. Olsen

Short Biography

Mary Bernstein is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Connecticut. Her scholarship seeks to understand the role of identity in social movements and how movement actors interact with the state and the law. Her recent publications include ‘Identity Politics’ (Annual Review of Sociology); ‘Paths to Homophobia’ (Sexuality Research and Social Policy); and ‘Nothing Ventured, Nothing Gained? Conceptualizing Social Movement ‘Success’ in the Lesbian and Gay Movement’ (Sociological Perspectives). She is also co-editor of Queer Families, Queer Politics (Columbia University Press) and Queer Mobilizations: LGBT Activists Confront the Law (New York University Press).

Kristine Olsen is a PhD candidate in the Department of Sociology at the University of Connecticut. Her research interests lie in the area of social movements. She is author (with Mary Burke) of ‘Queering the Family’ in The New Sexuality Studies: A Reader edited by Steven Seidman, Nancy Fischer, and Chet Meeks and of ‘Domestic Partnership and Civil Union’, in the forthcoming Encyclopedia of Gender and Society.