About
Maya Glenn-Hunt is a sociologist whose work spans gender and sexuality, feminist theory, qualitative methods, body and embodiment, and pleasure.
Maya is interested in how people understand social inequality and their identities through the lens of pleasure. She explores these questions in her current Chicago-based qualitative study, The Black Women & Pleasure Project, which looks at how Black women across the sexual identity spectrum understand their identities, define pleasure, and articulate its importance in everyday life. The study also seeks to understand what makes an experience pleasurable for this group.
In a second project, Maya explored how race, gender, and heterosexuality shape sexual interaction and subjectivity. These findings are published in her article, “Subversive Interpellations and Sexual Subjectivity Among Heterosexual Black Women" (Sex & Sexualities).
Maya's research has been supported by the National Science Foundation, the National Academies’ Ford Foundation Fellowships, and five research grants from U-M.
Maya is also Adjunct Faculty in the Women's Studies and Gender Studies Program at Loyola University Chicago, and a Visiting Predoctoral Fellow in the Gender and Sexuality Studies Program at Northwestern University.
Maya will be on the academic job market in 2027.
