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Expert Directory
The following scholars, writers, and editors are available to members of the media to talk about their work in this area. Following is information about their background, special interests, and preferred manner of contact. Listed email addresses should be copied into an email client, replacing "at" with "@".
Nancy Abrams
Nancy Abrams is the pen name of a journalist living in New England. In telling one woman's story, The Other Mother makes a solid case for legal protections, including marriage, for lesbian and gay families.
Contact
Email: tz11 at aol.com
Kevin Bourassa and Joe Varnell
Authors of Just Married: Gay Marriage and the Expansion of Human Rights. Kevin Bourassa was raised in Ontario, France, and Germany and moved to Toronto in 1976. He is in banking and specializes in process management. Joe Varnell is a Toronto native and works for an electronics company. They were married by a church in Canada in 2001 and issued a marriage license, setting off a series of court battles.
Contact
Email: kevinbourassa at hotmail.com, joe_varnell at hotmail.com
Evan Gerstmann
After graduating with honors from the University of Michigan Law school in 1986, Evan Gerstmann practiced law in New York City for five years. Subsequently, he completed his Masters and Ph.D. in Political Science at the University of Wisconsin. He studies the interaction between law and politics. He has published a book on constitutional law, The Constitutional Class: Gays, Lesbians and the Failure of Class-Based Equal Protection, as well as articles on subjects ranging from freedom of speech to how criminal law affects victims of domestic violence.
Contact
Phone: (310) 338-3004
Email: egerstma at lmu.edu
Rabbi Steven Greenberg
Rabbi Steven Greenberg, author of Wrestling with God and Men: Homosexuality in the Jewish Tradition, is a senior teaching fellow at CLAL, the National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership in New York City.
Contact
Email: stevegreenberg at nyc.rr.com
Jennifer M. Lehmann
Jennifer M. Lehmann is an associate professor of sociology and women’s studies at the University of Nebraska. She is the author of Deconstructing Durkheim and Durkheim and Women (Nebraska 1994) and the editor of Current Perspectives in Social Theory.
Contact
Department of Sociology
737 Oldfather Hall
Lincoln, Nebraska 68588-0324
Phone: (402) 472-3631
Email: jmlehmann at msn.com
Tim Miller
Performance artist and freelance writer, gay rights activist Tim Miller has focused his creative and political work on addressing the injustices facing lesbian and gay couples in America. His performance piece Glory Box is an exploration of same-sex marriage and the struggle for immigration rights for lesbian and gay bi-national couples. Glory Box recounts the trials Miller has been forced to undergo in trying to keep his Australian partner in the United States.
Tim Miller is the author of the book Shirts & Skin and his performance texts have appeared in the play collections O Solo Homo and Sharing the Delirium. He teaches performance at the University of California, Los Angeles, School of Theater and is co-founder of Performance Space 122 in New York City and Highways Performance Space in Santa Monica, California.
Contact
Email: millertale at aol.com
Glenda Riley
Glenda Riley is Alexander M. Bracken Professor Emeritus of History at Ball State University. Her most recent book is Taking Land, Breaking Land: Women Colonizing the American West and Kenya, 1840-1940 (2003). She lives on a small horse ranch in historic Lincoln County, New Mexico.
Contact
PO Box 853
108 E. Deer Trail
Capitan, NM 88316
Phone: (505) 354-0692
Email: griley at zianet.com
Michelangelo Signorile
Michelangelo Signorile, author of Queer in America: Sex, the Media, and the Closets of Power, is a syndicated columnist and lives in New York City.
Contact
Email: mike at signorile.com
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