Elizabeth Bernstein

Professor of Sociology and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Barnard College, Columbia University

Elizabeth Bernstein is Professor of Sociology and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Barnard College, Columbia University. Together with Janet Jakobsen, she currently co-directs the Barnard Center for Research on Women project on Gender, Justice, and Neoliberal Transformations.

She is the author of Temporarily Yours: Intimacy, Authenticity, and the Commerce of Sex (University of Chicago Press, 2007), which received two book awards from the American Sociological Association and the 2009 Norbert Elias Prize.

Her most recent book is Brokered Subjects: Sex, Trafficking, and the Politics of Freedom (University of Chicago Press, 2018), a theoretically grounded ethnography that explores the convergence of feminist, neoliberal, and evangelical Christian interests in shaping contemporary global policies surrounding the “trafficking of women.”