Salvador Vidal-Ortiz is Associate Professor of Sociology at American University. He co-authored the book Race and Sexuality; co-edited, in English, The Sexuality of Migration: Border Crossings and Mexican Immigrant Men and Queer Brown Voices: Personal Narratives of Latina/o LGBT Activism, and in Spanish, Travar el Saber (“Trans-ing Knowledges”) – on education and trans people in Argentina. He has published over 50 peer reviewed articles, book chapters, and special collection essays, and will use the time as a Fellow to work on his sole-author manuscript on Santería, race, gender and sexuality.