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Faculty
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Anna Kirkland is Assistant Professor of Women's Studies and Political Science. She earned her J.D. (2001) and Ph.D. (Jurisprudence and Social Policy, 2003) from the University of California, Berkeley. Her research focuses on the construction of the legal categories that receive civil rights protections in various jurisdictions of the United States, particularly gender, race, sexual orientation, and disability. She is interested in the politics of gaining legal protections as well as the ways in which ordinary people understand and negotiate their identities through the law. Her first book, Fat Rights: Dilemmas of Difference and Personhood, was recently published by New York University Press. Papers are forthcoming from a study of fat acceptance advocates and their perceptions of law, and her latest project is a mixed methodology study of undergraduates' ideas about what diversity means. Her published articles analyze transgendered plaintiffs who win their cases, transgender discrimination as sex discrimination, and the efforts of fat rights organizations to combat weight-based discrimination. Her work has also been featured in the recently published collection of The Fire This Time: Young Feminists and the New Activism (Anchor Books 2004). Professor Kirkland teaches courses on gender, sexuality, politics and law in Women's Studies and Political Science, and was recently a Visiting Assistant Professor of Law at the Michigan Law School. Selected Publications
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