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Amin Ghaziani

 

Professor of Sociology | Canada Research Chair in Urban Sexualities

Co-Editor, Contexts, American Sociological Association

The University of British Columbia in Vancouver

I am a Professor of Sociology, Canada Research Chair in Urban Sexualities, and co-editor of Contexts magazine, the public-facing publication of the American Sociological Association.

I earned my PhD from Northwestern, and before joining the faculty at UBC Sociology, I was a member of the Princeton Society of Fellows.

Over the course of my career, I have used my research and teaching to elevate the status of sexuality as a centrepoint for intellectual thought and debate.

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I regularly provide commentary about my research to the media. Please email me for a quote about gay neighborhoods, queer nightlife, queer politics, sexual cultures, or anti-LGBTQ discrimination.

Socius

January 2025

In my new article, co-authored with graduate student Andy Holmes, we show that LGBTQ+ people adopt multiple identity labels and…

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The Globe and Mail Op-Ed

July 2024

For the 2024 Pride season, I published an opinion-editorial essay in The Globe and Mail, Canada’s national newspaper. In “Last…

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Demography

July 2024

Amy Spring and I examine 2020 U.S. Census data and find that segregation trends for same-sex households has continued to…

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I AM THE AUTHOR / EDITOR OF SIX BOOKS

“A dazzling accomplishment, both conceptually and substantively. The Dividends of Dissent provides excellent data for addressing the ongoing debate over whether conflict within social movements is purely detrimental or can have positive consequences.”

Verta Taylor
University of California, Santa Barbara

“An accessible, absorbing look into an evolving form of queer culture, written by a brilliant sociologist.”

Library Journal
starred review

“Sex Cultures is a wonderful introduction to how to think about sexuality today. Unlike so many sexuality textbooks, here’s a teaching resource that elegantly weaves its way through cultural codes, political programs, and moral debates.”

Steven Epstein
Northwestern University

“Through the lens of gayborhoods, Amin Ghaziani offers a provocative and insightful new analysis of the gay experience. He combines historical documentation, popular media accounts, and empirical data to tell a compelling story of how gayborhoods shaped LGBT and urban life in America.”

Gary J. Gates
The Williams Institute at UCLA

“This exhaustively researched book contributes never before seen detail to the historical record...Ghaziani vividly demonstrates that infighting, which is often seen as an unfortunate distraction to movements, is, in fact, critical.”

Elizabeth Armstrong
University of Michigan

“Long Live Queer Nightlife is a hopeful and hugely generous book...As Ghaziani shows, fun is both life enhancing and deeply political.”

Matt Cook
University of Oxford

“The beauty of Ghaziani’s book is to remind us that at least as much conflict happens within a movement as without, and that how this conflict gets resolved powerfully shapes the development of the movement over time. An altogether welcome and groundbreaking addition to the social movement literature.”

Doug McAdam
Stanford University

"Ghaziani shines as an academic."

John Paul Brammer
New York Times Book Review

“With fluency and care, Amin Ghaziani brings us the voices and spaces of queer nightlife in the city. This is a book that listens closely, sees clearly, and dances freely. Against a sociology of loss, Ghaziani offers a counsel of joy.”

Fran Tonkiss
London School of Economics and Political Science

"Long Live Queer Nightlife is a celebration of radical inclusivity and the remaking of community--and a rediscovery of the joy of a night out.”

Ashley Mears
author of Very Important People: Status and Beauty in the Global Party Circuit

“Imagining Queer Methods brings together top scholars from across disciplines for a provocative tour of how queerness can challenge and invigorate research enterprises.”

Joshua Gamson
University of San Francisco

“Imagining Queer Methods jumpstarts a much-needed conversation among sociologists, historians, and literary theorists about what exactly it means to ‘do’ queer work. Original and path-breaking, Imagining Queer Methods will change the way we think about and practice our scholarship.”

Arlene Stein
Rutgers University

“If you live to dress up and go out, but you also appreciate beautiful, thorough research, you’re going to love this book. Grab your leather choker and DM for the address—we’re going underground.”

Krista Burton
author of Moby Dyke: An Obsessive Quest to Track Down the Last Remaining Lesbian Bars in America

“A rollicking, paradigm-shifting canter through the undergrounds of queer London.”

Diarmuid Hester
University of Cambridge

“Amin Ghaziani takes us to London’s most exciting club nights—in places you least expect—to reveal how queer nightlife thrives even when capitalism crushes the gay bar. This is rigorous, thumping cultural analysis.”

madison moore
Brown University

“This delightful and illuminating book takes us out on the town—London town. It shows us that, despite a dominant narrative of the death of gay nightclubs, queer nightlife is thriving while becoming more inclusive and joyful than ever. A must-read for anyone interested in urban life, culture, and community!”

Abigail C. Saguy
University of California, Los Angeles

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