Avery Gordon

Avery Gordon is a professor of Sociology, University of California, Santa Barbara, archivist and author of sociological theory and imagination.

Early life Gordon grew up in Florida, then attended the Georgetown School of Foreign Service. She earned a doctorate from Boston College. Gordon's work centers on radical thought and practice, the utopian, haunting and forms of dispossession.

Gordon co-hosts "No Alibis" with Elizabeth Robinson and Marisela Marquez on KCSB 91.9 FM Santa Barbara; a weekly radio program with discussions and interviews about domestic and international affairs.