Dr. Carla A. Pfeffer will join the faculty of the Sociology Department this fall. She received her Ph.D. in Sociology and Graduate Certificate in Women’s Studies from the University of Michigan. Her research and teaching focus on sex and gender, sexualities, families, the body, and qualitative methods. Her most recent work has been published in the American Journal of Sociology, Gender & Society, and Journal of Marriage and Family. She is currently finishing a book manuscript, Postmodern Partnerships: Cisgender Women, Transgender Men, and Twenty-First Century Queer Families, under contract with Oxford University Press. We are delighted to have her as our new colleague.