Cary Gabriel Costello

Associate Professor of Sociology
Coordinator, LGBT Studies, Sociology Director of Undergraduate Studies

Office:  Northwest Quadrant–Building B, Room 7535
Phone: 414/229-6942
E-mail: costello@uwm.edu
Vita (pdf)

Summer Office Hours (May 19-Sept. 2, 2013): By appointment

Education:

Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley 1999
M.A., University of California, Berkeley 1994
J.D., Harvard Law School 1990
B.A., Yale College 1986

Race/Class/Gender/Sexuality; Sociology of the Body; Social Problems; Science/Medicine/Technology; Sociology of the Professions

Teaching Schedule

Spring 2014
Sociol 102-401: Social Problems in American Societty
Sociol 255-001: Sociology of Sexuality
Fall 2013
Sociol 102-401: Social Problems in American Society
Summer 2013
Sociol 250-231:  Sex and Gender
Spring 2013
Sociol 102-401: Social Problems in American Society (pdf)
Sociol 255-001: Sociology of Sexuality (pdf)
Fall 2012
Sociol 102-401: Social Problems in American Society (pdf)
Sociol 444-001: Sociology of the Body (pdf)
Summer 2012
Sociol 250-231:  Sex and Gender (pdf)

Research Interests:

Prof. Costello is currently engaged in research on virtual embodiment and identity in Second Life®. He runs the Avatar Identity Research Center, which presents a seminar series on avatar embodiment, and through the Editing Appearances project has interviewed over 90 individuals in a variety of communities about selfhood and the virtual body.

Selected Publications:

Cary Gabriel Costello.  “Intersex Pregnancy: Contested Identities and Ideologies of Sex and Gender,” forthcoming 2013 in Joani Mortenson, ed.,  Queering Maternity and Motherhood: Narrative and Theoretical Perspectives on Queer Conception, Birth and Parenting.  Bradford, ON: Demeter Press.

Cary Gabriel Costello. “Sexuality in a Virtual World,” forthcoming  2012 in Mindy Stombler et al., eds., Sex Matters, 4th Ed.  NJ: Pearson Education.

Cary Gabriel Costello. “The Real Me: Selfhood in the Virtual World,” 2011.  Pp. 187-203 in Bob Batchelor, Ed., Cult Pop Culture: How the Fringe Became Mainstream, V. 3. Westport, CT: Praeger.

Cary Gabriel Costello. "Caster Semenya: Una Perspectiva Intersex.”  2010.  In  Cuerpos Distintos: Ocho Años de Activismo Transfeminista en Ecuador,  Almeida Ana y Vásquez Elizabeth, Eds., Comisión de Transición hacia el Consejo de las Mujeres y la Igualdad de Género - Gobierno Nacional de la República del Ecuador, Manthra Editores, pp.. 69-72.

Carrie Yang Costello.  “Researching Identity in Second Life.”  2008.  Communications, 32(12): pp. 19-21.

Carrie Yang Costello.  “Teratology: ‘Monsters’ and the Professionalization of Obstetrics.” 2006. Journal of Historical Sociology, 19(1): pp. 1-33.

Carrie Yang Costello. Professional Identity Crisis: Race, Class, Gender and Success at Professional Schools. 2005. Vanderbilt University Press.

Carrie Yang Costello. "Changing Clothes: Gender Inequality and Professional Socialization." 2004. National Women’s Studies Association Journal, 16(2): pp. 138-155.

Carrie Yang Costello. "Cosmetic Genital Surgery Performed upon Children." 2004. Robert Perrucci, Kathleen Ferraro, JoAnn Miller, Paula C. Rodriguez Rust, eds., Solutions: Agenda for Social Justice 2004. Tenn.: Society for the Study of Social Problems: pp. 81-86. 

Carrie Yang Costello. The Sociology of Gender and Work: Syllabi and Teaching Materials. (editor) 2002. Washington, D.C.: American Sociological Association.

Carrie Yang Costello. "Comment: Limits of Biological Determinism." Coauthored with Eleanor M. Miller. 2001. American Sociological Review, 66(4): pp. 592-8.

Carrie Yang Costello. "Schooled by the Classroom: The (Re)Production of Social Stratification and Professional School Settings," 2001. Eric Margolis, ed., The Hidden Curriculum in Higher Education, Routledge: pp. 43-59.

Carrie Yang Costello. "Conceiving Identity: Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Parents Consider their Children's Sexual Identities," 1997. Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare, 24(3): pp. 63-89.