Gregory Mitchell is an Assistant Professor at Williams College in Women’s, Gender & Sexuality Studies.  He holds his PhD in Performance Studies from Northwestern University, from which he also received a PhD Certificate and served as a Mellon Cluster Fellow in Gender & Sexuality Studies.  While there, he also received the Presidential Fellowship and membership in the Society of Fellows, that university’s highest honor for graduate researchers.  He also holds a masters in social science (focusing on cultural anthropology) from the University of Chicago and a masters in Theatre History from Illinois State University (focusing on drama as therapy with rape, abuse and trauma survivors.) His research on sex work, sexual migration, trafficking, and sexual economies in Brazil has been published in American Ethnologist, The Journal of Popular Music Studies, and The Wagadu Journal of Transnational Feminist Studies, as well as in several edited volumes in Brazil and the United States.

He has received awards from the Ford Foundation, and twice  from American Anthropological Association, including the Payne Prize from the Association for Queer Anthropology and the President’s Prize in Humanistic Anthropology.  He also received the Lila Heston Award for Performance Studies and an award for outstanding graduate research from Zeta Phi Eta (National Professional Association of Communication Arts & Sciences.)  In 2010, he was inducted into the prestigious Faculty Honor Roll for excellence in teaching at Northwestern.  His courses include introductory seminars in women’s, gender and sexuality studies; performance and gender theory; masculinities; ethnographic methods; sexual economies; global sexualities; and queer of color criticism. Prior to entering the academy, he worked in public policy development for the Chicago Board of Education and also in domestic and family violence intervention services.