Roger Lancaster

Roger Lancaster is an anthropologist and currently director of the Cultural Studies PhD program at George Mason University.His expertise is in gay/lesbian studies, gender/sexuality, culture and political economy, critical science studies, Latin America, and the United States.He is a fellow in the American Anthropological Association. From 2004 to 2006, he served as the AAA's media liaison on kinship, the family, and marriage, often fielding questions on same-sex marriage from a wide range of major media organizations. Cultural studies is an academic field grounded in critical theory and literary criticism. It generally concerns the political nature of contemporary culture, as well as its historical foundations, conflicts, and defining traits. It is, to this extent, largely distinguished from cultural anthropology and ethnic studies in both objective and methodology. Researchers concentrate on how a particular medium or message relates to matters of ideology, social class, nationality, ethnicity, sexuality, and/or gender.... Mehr