Annie Wilkinson

Annie Wilkinson is a Research Fellow at Northwestern University, affiliated with the SPAN program (2022–2024). Her work combines ethnography, sociological inquiry, and deep listening to analyze the politicization and polarization of gender and sexual politics, particularly focusing on transnational anti-feminist and anti-LGBT movements in Mexico and the Americas.

• Ph.D., Anthropology, University of California, Irvine

Her research explores how anti-gender activism exploits societal insecurities, post-truth populism, and economic/political instability under late neoliberalism to challenge equality and democratic norms. This work forms the basis of her book project, Illiberal Insecurities: Distrust and Post-Truth Populism in Anti-Gender Activism in Mexico. She has also published in journals such as the International Journal of Feminist Politics, Feminist Anthropology, and North American Congress on Latin America (NACLA).

Wilkinson’s research has been funded by grants from:

• Wenner Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research
• National Science Foundation
• U.S. Fulbright Commission
• Institute for Citizens & Scholars (formerly Woodrow Wilson Foundation)
• US-Mexico Studies Center at UC San Diego

At Northwestern, she taught courses including:

• Witches, Bots, & Trolls: Misinformation in Society (Fall 2022)
• Science & Anti-Science of Race and Gender (Winter 2023)