
- costello@uwm.edu
- 414-229-4389
- Bolton Hall 738
- ze/zir/zim or he/his/him
Cary Costello
- Director, LGBT Studies Program
- Associate Professor, Sociology
Education
- PhD, University of California, Berkeley 1999
- MA, University of California, Berkeley 1994
- JD, Harvard Law School 1990
- BA, Yale College 1986
Office Hours
- Bolton Hall, Office #738
- Tuesdays 12:00-2:00pm
Teaching Schedule
Course Num | Title | Meets | Syllabus |
---|---|---|---|
SOCIOL 102-201 | Solving Social Problems | No Meeting Pattern | |
SOCIOL 255-001 | Sociology of Sexuality | TR 2:30pm-3:45pm |
Courses Taught
- SOCIOL 102: Solving Social Problems
- SOCIOL 250: Sex and Gender
- SOCIOL 255: Sociology of Sexuality
- SOCIOL 444 (U/G): Sociology of The Body
- SOCIOL 928: The Sociology of Sex and Gender
Research Interests
- Sociology of the Body
- Sex and Gender
- Sociology of Sexuality
- Intersectional Identity
- Science, Technology, and Medicine Studies
Prof. Costello engages in research in embodied experience and interventions into embodied identity. In one line of research, he studies the regulation of sex and gender through medical interventions into the bodies of intersex and transgender people. In another, ze examines embodiment in virtual settings. In a longitudinal study of avatar embodiment in the virtual world of Second Life, Costello studies how identification with the avatar body facilitates experiences of sensation in virtual flesh, and the therapeutic uses to which people put their avatars, with a particular focus on gender variance, disability, and neurodivergence.
Selected Publications
Costello, Cary G “The Intersection of Transgender and Intersex Experiences.” 2023. Pp 67-84 in J. Erica Sumerau, ed., Handbook of Transgender Studies. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield.
Costello, Cary G “DARVO: The Inversion of Sex, Gender, and Sexuality in the Era of Trump's Mirror.” 2022. Ch 21 in Maureen E. Ryan and Richard Grusin, eds. The Long 2020. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press.