Marcy Quiason, Ph.D. (she/her) is an Assistant Professor of Gender Studies at Lawrence University. Marcy’s research focuses on the ways that universities, NGOs, and non-profit organizations negotiate political and economic systems that constrain and empower their work. Marcy current project focuses on the impact of neoliberalism on gender, sexuality, and women’s studies programs, examining how institutional priorities for efficiency, outcomes, and cost-effectiveness shape the ways that gender, women and sexuality studies programs frame their work. Marcy’s previous project examined how Philippine anti-trafficking NGOs build legitimacy through affective narratives and the circulation of emotion.
A committed advocate of community-engaged research, Marcy is co-leading the MO Ho Justice Oral Histories Project with the MO Ho Justice Coalition, a sex worker rights organization in Missouri. Co-designed with members of the sex-working community, this project aims to preserve and amplify the knowledge produced by sex workers for the broader sex work community.
She is also the recipient of the Associated Colleges of the Midwest Mellon Faculty Fellowship. Marcy's teaching interests are wide-ranging. She teaches courses on intersectional feminist theory, decolonial feminist theory, feminist nonprofit organizations, and feminist methods.
