Avery Gordon is a professor of Sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara and a visiting faculty fellow at the Centre for Research Architecture, Department of Visual Cultures, Goldsmiths College, University of London. She obtained her Ph.D. at Boston College. Her work focuses on radical thought in action over the last few years, and she has written on captivity, war and other forms of dispossession and how to eliminate them. She is also a Keeper of the Hawthorne Archives, which records the living history of the arrival and existence of a group of runaways, secessionists and in-differents who form autonomous zones and settlements, and have receded from living as obedient (and also resistant or resisting) subjects. She is the author of Ghostly Matters: Haunting and the Sociological Imagination, 2nd ed. (Minnesota, 2008), Keeping Good Time: Reflections on Knolwedge, Power and People (Paradigm Publishers 2004), and the co-editor of Mapping Multiculturalism (University of Minnesota Press, 1996) and Body Politics (Westview, 1994). Recent scholarly publications have appeared in South Atlantic Quarterly, Race & Class, PMLA, and other collections. Since 1997, Gordon has co-hosted a weekly public affairs radio program, "No Alibis," on KCSB 91.9 FM Santa Barbara.
