Sarah E. Frank (“Frankie”)

Frankie (Sarah E. Frank) is currently a PhD candidate and lecturer at the University of Wisconsin – Madison in the Department of Sociology and the Department of Legal Studies.

Frankie has been honored as a Comm-B Writing Intensive Teaching Fellow, University Housing Honored Instructor and received the Early Excellence Teaching Award (2018) for teaching assistants across UW Madison. Frankie has been a two-time Alpha Kappa Delta (AKD) Teaching & Learning Fellow, and serves as the AKD Graduate Council Representative. She has also lectured at Madison Area Technical College. 

Certifications include: LGBTQIA Safe Spaces, Undocumented Student Safe Spaces, Alpha Kappa Delta Teaching & Learning, Midwest Sociological Society Teaching & Learning, CRLA Tutoring (NCAA).

Research interests include: gender, sexuality, law, menstruation, queer theory, relationships, intimacy, sex roles, bodies & embodiment, institutions and regulation, intersectionality, qualitative methods.

• Current Projects
  • Tampon Taxation, Law & Governance of Bodies 
  • Endometriosis and Medical Institutions
  • Menstruation and Race in Medicine
  • Military Menstruation

Memberships include: American Sociological Association, National Women’s Studies Association, Sociologists for Women in Society, Alpha Kappa Delta Sociology Honors Society, Society for Menstrual Cycle Research 

Publications & Writing:

• Articles
  
  • Intersex & Intimacy (2017). Sexuality & Culture
  • Queering Menstruation (2020) (Sociological Inquiry)
    • Alpha Kappa Delta Graduate Student Paper Award Winner (American Sociological Association meeting 2019)
    • 3-Minute Thesis, Midwest Sociological Society 2019, First Place 
  • Navigating Binary Society: a Visual Narrative of Trans and Genderqueer Menstruation (2020) Eds. Chris Bobel, Inga T. Winkler, Breanne Fahs, Katie Hasson, Elizabeth Arveda Kissling, Tomi-Ann Roberts. The Palgrave Handbook of Critical Menstruation Studies. 
    • Accompanying comics by Jac Dellaria. 
• Book & Film Reviews
  • Carla Pfeffer’s Queering Families (Sociological Inquiry) 2019
  • Moira Carmody’s Sex, Ethics & Young People (Teaching Sociology) 2020
  • Three Identical Strangers, Film (Teaching Sociology) (2020)
• Public Sociology & Service
  • “After Detention: the struggle continues as U.S. immigrants await court dates on U.S. soil”
  • The Menstruation Collective (non-profit project & student organization)
    • Social Action Initiative Grant Recipient, Sociologists for Women in Society 2020
  • Period. University of Wisconsin – Madison Student Organization (Advisor/Mentor)
  • Alliance Against Sexual Assault in Marching Bands (Advisor/Mentor)
  • The Personal Finance for PhDs Podcast: A Higher Education in Personal Finance, Season 5, Episode 6 Guest. February 10th, 2020

For more information, email: sfrank9@wisc.edu or click below:

• S. Frank CV (2020)
• Teaching Evaluations (password available upon request)

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