Benjamin Weiss

Benjamin Weiss is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Occidental College, specializing in gender, sex, and sexualities, crime, law, and deviance, and organizations. His research explores how collective groups define and address social problems, particularly through legal and social movement frameworks.

• Education: B.A. from Occidental College, Ph.D. in Sociology from University of Southern California

Research Highlights:

• The Rape Racket: Analyzes financial logic in civil sexual violence litigation (book under advance contract with University of California Press)
• Queer Balls Diffusion: Investigates prefigurative social movement events as responses to marginalization in Europe

Publications: Appeared in Criminology, Law & Society Review, Social Problems, and Theory and Society