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Liz Montegary is Associate Professor and Department Chair of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Stony Brook University, within the College of Arts and Sciences. Her work bridges feminist and queer theory with transnational American studies, focusing on the intersections of sexuality, militarization, mobility, and neoliberal politics.
Her research interests include:
- Feminist and queer theory
- Transnational American studies
- LGBT/queer activism
- Travel, tourism, and mobility studies
- Cultural studies of militarization and securitization
- Abolitionist university studies
Montegary’s recent publications explore the institutionalization of gender and sexuality studies, right-wing attacks on the field, and the role of the university in perpetuating carceral and colonial systems. Her articles appear in leading journals such as GLQ, Signs, WSQ, and Cultural Studies. Her work often connects queer family formations, military policies, and financialization to broader structures of empire and neoliberalism.
Her most recent and upcoming research analyzes how U.S. military programs targeting military families reflect the privatization of empire and proposes family abolition as a framework for anti-imperial and anti-war movements. This builds on her ongoing engagement with abolitionist thought and critical university studies.
She is the author of Familiar Perversions: The Racial, Sexual, and Economic Politics of LGBT Families (Rutgers, 2018) and co-editor of Mobile Desires: The Politics and Erotics of Mobility Justice (Palgrave, 2015).
Montegary advises students in gender and sexuality studies and is actively involved in shaping the academic and political direction of her department and field. She is committed to building alternative, abolitionist models of higher education.
