Board of Directors
Roger Lancaster, Board Member | Roger Lancaster is an anthropologist and cultural studies scholar whose research spanning four decades has been set in Nicaragua, the US, and Mexico. Whether tracing the decline of a revolution or the rise of new identities, his studies try to understand how sexual mores, race hierarchies, and class predicaments interact in a volatile world. His books and articles have informed HIV/AIDS education projects, legal briefs, and policy debates. Dr. Lancaster is professor of cultural anthropology and interim director of the cultural studies program at George Mason University and is widely recognized as one of the most forward thinking critics of the current sex panic. His meticulous essay outlining the field of sex-related offense policy and its harm “The New Pariahs” was featured in the seminal anthology, The War on Sex (2017). Dr. Lancaster has authored 6 books including Sex Panic and the Punitive State (2011) and most recently The Struggle to be Gay—in Mexico, for Example (2024).
