Book Talk | Lisa M. Stulberg | How to Win a Culture War: LGBTQ+ Social Change Through Pop Culture

Join the Institute for Public Knowledge on Wednesday, December 2 (12:00 PM-1:30 PM) for an event with Lisa M. Stulberg. She will discuss her book, How to Win a Culture War: LGBTQ+ Social Change Through Pop Culture, with Joe Salvatore. 

Lisa M. Stulberg is associate professor of sociology of education at New York University’s Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development and an affiliated faculty member in the Department of Sociology at NYU. Her research focuses on the politics of race and education, affirmative action in higher education, school choice policy and politics, and LGBTQ+ social change. She is the author of Race, Schools, and Hope: African Americans and School Choice after Brown (Teachers College Press, 2008) and LGBTQ Social Movements (Polity, 2018). She is the co-editor (with Eric Rofes) of The Emancipatory Promise of Charter Schools: Toward a Progressive Politics of School Choice (SUNY Press, 2004) and the co-editor (with Sharon Lawner Weinberg) of Diversity in American Higher Education: Toward a More Comprehensive Approach (Routledge, 2011). She is a frequent speaker and editorial writer on schooling, pop culture, and politics. She is also a devoted fan of television, an enthusiastic reader of fiction, and a strong advocate for institutional change in higher education through her work with NYU Steinhardt’s Womxn and Work Task Force, LGBTQ Working Group, and the Council for Action and Advocacy United for Social Justice and Equity (now called CAUSE).  She currently is working on a book with Anthony S. Chen, of Northwestern University, on the origins of race-conscious affirmative action in college admissions. She received an A.B. from Harvard College, a Masters in Social Science (M.Soc.Sci.) in Cultural Studies from the University of Birmingham (in the U.K.), and a Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of California at Berkeley.

Joe Salvatore is an artist-researcher who creates theatre and video projects from interview-based data, found media artifacts, and historical events. He believes that performance has the power to disrupt pre-conceived notions and to challenge and change collaborators and audiences alike. Critics and audiences have called his work “engrossing and illuminating,” “courageous,” and “an incredible bit of truth.” Salvatore is the director of the Verbatim Performance Lab and teaches in the Program in Educational Theatre at NYU Steinhardt. He is a member of the Dramatists Guild of America, the Association for Theatre in Higher Education, and the American Alliance for Theatre and Education. He is a cluster member of the UBC Research-based Theatre Collaborative, an affiliated faculty researcher with the NYU Steinhardt Theatre and Health Lab, and an alumnus of the Lincoln Center Directors Lab.