Sue Ferguson

Sue Ferguson is an Adjunct Professor of Feminist Theory and Social Reproduction Studies at the Faculty of Graduate Studies, Rutgers University, and holds Emerita status from Wilfrid Laurier University. She is also an Affiliated Researcher with the University of Houston's Comparative Cultural Studies Department. Ferguson's work critically examines intersections between capitalism, gender, race, and childhood through a Marxist lens. Her research revitalizes Social Reproduction Theory (SRT) to analyze how capitalist systems perpetuate social oppressions.

Education: Ph.D. in Political Science from York University, Toronto. Prior to academia, she was a senior writer at Canada’s Maclean’s magazine.

Research focuses on:

• Social Reproduction Theory
• Capitalism and Childhood
• Feminist Political Economy
• Anti-Oppression Organizing

Current book project: Capitalist Childhoods, Anti-Capitalist Children explores childhood as a site of capitalist exploitation and potential for resistance. Her 2020 book Women and Work has been widely translated.

Key contributions include co-editing the Pluto Press series Mapping Social Reproduction and serving on the editorial board of Midnight Sun.

Affiliations: Engaged with Imagining America and affiliated with multiple universities' cultural studies programs.