Avery Gordon

Avery Gordon is a Professor of Sociology, University of California, Santa Barbara, archivist and author of sociological theory and imagination.

Early life
Gordon grew up in Florida, then attended the Georgetown School of Foreign Service. She earned a doctorate from Boston College.

Career
Gordon is a Professor of Sociology, University of California, Santa Barbara, archivist and author of sociological theory and imagination. She has also been a visiting Faculty Fellow in the Centre for Research Architecture at Goldsmiths College University of London (2008-2013) and visiting professor at Birkbeck School of Law University of London. In 2012, she was the Anna Maria Kellen Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin. Her writings have been featured in South Atlantic Quarterly, Race & Class, PMLA, and other collections. Gordon’s work centers on radical thought and practice, the utopian, haunting and forms of dispossession.

Gordon co-hosts "No Alibis" with Elizabeth Robinson and Marisela Marquez on KCSB 91.9 FM Santa Barbara; a weekly radio program with discussions and interviews about domestic and international affairs.