Elizabeth Anne Wood

Sociologist, Writer, Coach

Elizabeth Anne Wood is a SUNY Chancellor’s Award-winning Professor of Sociology and an Acting Dean of Academic Affairs at Nassau Community College. She received her Ph.D. in Sociology from Brandeis University in 1999 for a study of gender, interaction and power in strip clubs. She has published research on sex work and women’s sexual expression on the internet in Journal of Contemporary Ethnography and Feminism & Psychology. Her work has also been published online with Scientific American and HERS Magazine. She’s been interviewed for Authority Magazine and been cited as an expert in Mens’ Health and Elite Daily. Her radio and podcast appearances include Culture Shocks (Barry Lynn), Sex Out Loud (Tristan Taormino), Our Better Half (Drs. Jane Fleishman and Ashley Mader), Peepshow Podcast (PJ and Jessie Sage), and Carnal Theory (Abba Charmicheal).

Elizabeth’s debut memoir, Bound: A Daughter, a Domme and an End-of-Life Story (She Writes Press, 2019) explores themes of sexuality, illness, aging, and the dysfunctions of the U. S. health care system. When she isn’t writing, teaching, or strategizing you can catch her on the flying trapeze.