Roger Lancaster

For the English cricketer, see Roger Lancaster (cricketer).

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Roger Lancaster is an anthropologist and a former director of the Cultural Studies PhD program at George Mason University near Fairfax, Virginia.

Lancaster's expertise is in gay/lesbian studies, gender/sexuality, culture and political economy, critical science studies, Latin America, and the United States.

Lancaster is a fellow in the American Anthropological Association. From 2004 to 2006, he served as the AAA's media liaison on kinship, the family, and marriage, often fielding questions on same-sex marriage from a wide range of major media organizations.

Works

• Sex Panic and the Punitive State, University of California Press, 2011, 9780520262065
• The trouble with nature: sex and science in popular culture, University of California Press, 2003, 0520236203
• Edited with Micaela di Leonardo, The gender/sexuality reader: culture, history, political economy, Routledge, 1997, 0415910056
• Life is hard: machismo, danger, and the intimacy of power in Nicaragua, University of California Press, 1992, ISBN 0-520-08929-4
• Thanks to God and the Revolution: Popular Religion and Class Consciousness in the New Nicaragua, Columbia University Press, 1988, 0231067305