Arlene Stein teaches courses on the sociology of gender, sexuality, culture, and religion, and serves on the graduate faculty of the Women’s and Gender Studies program at Rutgers. Her research interests include the cultural and emotional dimensions of social movements, trauma and collective memory, the social construction of LGBT identities and communities, conservative social movements, and symbolic interactionist and psychoanalytic sociology. She is the author of three books and the editor of two collections of essays. Among them is The Stranger Next Door: The Story of a Small Community’s Battle Over Sex, Faith, and Civil Rights, which won the American Anthropological Association’s Ruth Benedict Award, and Sex and Sensibility: Stories of a Lesbian Generation. She received the Simon and Gagnon Award for career contributions to the study of sexualities, given by the American Sociological Association, serves on the editorial board of Sexualities, and is culture editor of Sociology Compass. She is currently writing a book about storytelling and the intergenerational transmission of Holocaust memories.