Friday, November 6, 2015

40,000 Missing Girls: Sexual Panics, Prostitution, and Police Violence during the World Cup in Brazil - 3:30pm, November 11


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In the run-up to the 2014 World Cup and 2016 Olympics, the Brazilian government engaged in a militarized campaign to clean up favelas, blighted areas, and red light districts so that it could "develop" them. This research, based on ethnographic work in Rio de Janeiro, London, and Cape Town, argues that there is a pattern in host cities of such events in which neoliberal agents, state forces and NGOs use discourses of feminism and human rights - especially unfounded fears about sex trafficking and sports - to enact such changes regardless of the political economic conditions or systems of governance. Through these actions, these coalitions have created channels for the very exploitation they purport to prevent and increased sexual health vulnerabilities for at-risk populations.
A CWGS Gender, Race, Sex, & Health Annual Theme Event
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BIOGRAPHY
Gregory is an Assistant Professor at Williams College in Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies and affiliate faculty in the Department of Anthropology & Sociology.  He studies sex worker migration, prostitution, race, and discourses of sex trafficking as well as the effects of public policy approaches.  At present, he is conducting research funded by the National Science Foundation to examine how states incentivize particular narratives and performances of nationalism in their attempts to police female sex workers, especially during global sporting events. His first book, Tourist Attractions: Performing Masculinity & Race in Brazil's Sexual Economy, is an ethnography of men who sell sex in several cities in Brazil and is forthcoming from University of Chicago Press in November of 2015. 

His research on sex work, race, sexual migration, trafficking, and sexual economies in Brazil has been published in GLQ (forthcoming in Vol 22 #3), Porn Studies (forthcoming), The Criminal Justice and Law Enforcement Annual (forthcoming), American Ethnologist, The Journal of Popular Music Studies, and The Wagadu Journal of Transnational Feminist Studies, as well as in several edited volumes in Brazil and the United States.  Recent and upcoming lecture venues include Oberlin, Amherst, UT-Austin, University of Wyoming, Rice University, and Cambridge University.

He holds his PhD in Performance Studies from Northwestern University, from which he also received a PhD Certificate and served as a Mellon Fellow in Gender Studies.  While there, he also received the Presidential Fellowship and membership in the Society of Fellows, that university's highest honor for doctoral researchers.  He also holds a masters in social science (focusing on Cultural Anthropology) from the University of Chicago.  He also holds Bachelors and Masters degrees from Illinois State University.

Gregory has received awards from the NSF, Ford Foundation, and twice  from American Anthropological Association.  He also received the Lila Heston Award for Performance Studies and an award for outstanding graduate research from the National Professional Association of Communication Arts & Sciences.  In 2010, he was inducted into the prestigious Faculty Honor Roll for excellence in teaching at Northwestern. At Williams, students awarded him a 2015 Faculty Accessibility Award. Current and past courses include Introduction to Women's and Gender Studies, Introduction to Sexuality Studies, Performing Masculinity, Queer of Color Critique, Sexual Economies, Global Sexualities, and Ethnographic Methods.  Prior to entering the academy, he worked in public policy development for the Chicago Board of Education and also in domestic and family violence intervention services.

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