March Salon - Leslie McCall
March 9, 2022
Salon Topic:
Researching intersectionality in contemporary U.S. politics and revisiting the complexity of intersectionality for research

Salon Guests:
Leslie McCall, PhD
Associate Director, Stone Center and Presidential Professor of Sociology and Political Science, The Graduate Center, CUNY
Salon Description:
Professor McCall will talk about her current research on intersectionality in U.S. politics, and also about how she's been thinking about the intercategorical, intracategorical and anti-categorical complexity approaches to intersectionality research that she outlined in her visionary 2005 article, "The Complexity of Intersectionality."
Guest Bio:
Leslie McCall studies public opinion about inequality, opportunity and related economic and policy issues; trends in actual earnings and family income inequality; and patterns of intersectional inequality. She is the author of The Undeserving Rich: American Beliefs about Inequality, Opportunity and Redistribution (2013) and Complex Inequality: Gender, Class and Race in the New Economy (2001). In line with her 2005 article, she also maintains an interest in the conceptualization and empirical analysis of intersectionality from a social science perspective.
- Cho, S., Crenshaw, K. W., & McCall, L. (2013). Toward a field of intersectionality studies: Theory, applications, and praxis. Signs, 38(4), 785-810. https://doi.org/10.1086/669608
- McCall, L. (2005). The complexity of intersectionality. Signs, 30(3), 1771-1800. https://doi.org/10.1086/426800