Maxine Leeds Craig

Maxine Leeds Craig is an American professor, working in the sociology department at the University of California, Davis.^[1]

Craig was a doctoral student of Todd Gitlin at the University of California, Berkeley; her doctoral dissertation became the book, Ain't I a Beauty Queen? Black Women, Beauty, and the Politics of Race (2002).^[2] Her second book, Sorry I Don't Dance: Why Men Refuse to Move (2013), was awarded the 2014 Best Publication Award of the American Sociological Association's section on Body and Embodiment.^[3]

She was chair of the American Sociological Association Section on Race, Gender, and Class for 2009–2010.^[4]

Publications

• Ain't I A Beauty Queen?: Black Women, Beauty, and the Politics of Race. Oxford University Press, 2002. ISBN 978-0195152623.^[5]
• Sorry I Don't Dance: Why Men Refuse To Move. Oxford University Press, 2013. ISBN 978-0199845293.^[6]