About
Maya Glenn-Hunt is a sociologist whose work spans social theory, gender and sexuality, race and ethnicity, qualitative methods, body and embodiment, and pleasure. Her research program leverages people's meaning making around everyday pleasures to theorize the lived experience of social inequality.
In Maya's current Chicago-based qualitative study, The Black Women & Pleasure Project, she looks at how Black American 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, she 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 four 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 is currently on the academic job market.
