"My research, teaching, and service work are shaped by a commitment to understanding and supporting the resourceful ways that people— particularly women and people of color—cope with and respond to the marginality that they experience in everyday life. 

I also strive to recognize the resilience, resistance, and joy that emerges from these responses."

— Anna P. Hidalgo

My research bridges cultural, economic, and political sociology with gender and feminist theory to understand the entanglements of markets, states, and intimacy. 

Using various qualitative methods I study how new dating economies, such as dating applications and websites, reproduce social inequalities and shape social membership.

I am a cultural anthropologist whose research focuses on historical reconfigurations of relations with land and landscapes, racialized and gendered labor, queer politics, and property. Much of this work centers on collaborations with activists who contest historical and ongoing oppression through myriad forms of protest—both formal and informal…

Maria Cecilia Hwang (Ph.D., Brown University) is assistant professor in the Department of East Asian Studies and the Institute for Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies. Before joining McGill, she was a Henry Luce Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow in Southeast Asian Studies at Rice University. Hwang is a qualitative sociologist who employs…