Kathleen J. Fitzgerald is a Teaching Assistant Professor at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Her teaching and research focuses on social inequalities, specifically race, racism, and privilege; gender and sexualities; and food justice. She is author of Beyond White Ethnicity: Developing a Sociological Understanding of Native American Identity Reclamation, coauthor of Sociology of Sexualities, second edition, and has published in The Sociological Quarterly, Humanity and Society, and Sociological Focus.