Journal Articles
My peer-reviewed articles focus on Sex Work & Human Trafficking, Theorizing Sexualities, & most recently, Death Studies
Teaching Death Rituals during States of Emergency: Centering Death Positivity, Decolonization, Grief, & Ritual. | Journal of Curriculum and Pedagogy.
Lerum, K. 2021. DOI: 10.1080/15505170.2021.1964114
Sociological Perspectives on Sex Work & Human Trafficking | Sociological Perspectives
Lerum, K., & Brents, B. 2016.
Sexuality in the Global South: 50 Years of Published Research | Journal of Sex Research
Dworkin, S.L., Lerum, K, & Zakaras, J. 2016
The Power of (but not in?) Sexual Configurations Theory | Archives of Sexual Behavior
Lerum, K., & Dworkin, S.L. 2015.
Sexual Agency is not a Problem of Neoliberalism: Feminism, Sexual Justice, & the Carceral Turn | Sex Roles
Lerum, K., & Dworkin, S.L. 2015.
A FemmeNist ManiPedifesto | Cultural Studies <-> Critical Methodologies
Lerum, K. 2015.
Human Wrongs vs. Human Rights | Contexts
Lerum, K. 2015 (short invited essay; one of 6 essays by experts on sex work and human trafficking).
Using Human Rights to Hold the U.S. Accountable for its Anti-Sex Work Agenda | Anti-Trafficking Review
Lerum, K., McCurtis, K., Saunders, P., & Wahab, S. 2012.
Exotic Dance Research: A Review of the Literature from 1970-2008 | Sexuality & Culture
Wahab, S., Baker, L., Smith, J., Cooper, K., & Lerum, K. 2011.
Toward an Interdisciplinary Dialogue on Youth, Sexualization, and Health | Journal of Sex Research
Lerum, K., & Dworkin, S.L. 2009.
'Bad Girls Rule': An Interdisciplinary Feminist Commentary on the APA Task Force on the Sexualization of Girls | Journal of Sex Research
Lerum, K., & Dworkin, S..L. 2009.
Research Circles: Supporting the Scholarship of Junior Faculty | Innovative Higher Education
Gillespie, D., Dolsak, N., Kochis, B., Krabill, R., Lerum, K., Peterson, A., & Thomas, E. 2005.
Sexuality, Power, & Camaraderie in Service Work | Gender & Sexuality
Lerum, K. 2004. (UW Press release resulted in dozens of news stories and several requests for radio and TV interviews).
Subjects of Desire: Academic Armor, Intimate Ethnography, & the Production of Critical Knowledge | Qualitative Inquiry
Lerum, K. 2001. (First place graduate paper, Social Problems Theory Division, Sociology for the Study of Social Problems, 2000).
12-Step Feminism makes Sex Workers Sick: How the State and the Recovery Movement turn Radical Women into 'Useless Citizens' | Sexuality & Culture
Lerum, K. 1998. (First place graduate paper, Culture Section, American Sociological Association, 1999).
Lerum, K. 2021. DOI: 10.1080/15505170.2021.1964114
Sociological Perspectives on Sex Work & Human Trafficking | Sociological Perspectives
Lerum, K., & Brents, B. 2016.
Sexuality in the Global South: 50 Years of Published Research | Journal of Sex Research
Dworkin, S.L., Lerum, K, & Zakaras, J. 2016
The Power of (but not in?) Sexual Configurations Theory | Archives of Sexual Behavior
Lerum, K., & Dworkin, S.L. 2015.
Sexual Agency is not a Problem of Neoliberalism: Feminism, Sexual Justice, & the Carceral Turn | Sex Roles
Lerum, K., & Dworkin, S.L. 2015.
A FemmeNist ManiPedifesto | Cultural Studies <-> Critical Methodologies
Lerum, K. 2015.
Human Wrongs vs. Human Rights | Contexts
Lerum, K. 2015 (short invited essay; one of 6 essays by experts on sex work and human trafficking).
Using Human Rights to Hold the U.S. Accountable for its Anti-Sex Work Agenda | Anti-Trafficking Review
Lerum, K., McCurtis, K., Saunders, P., & Wahab, S. 2012.
Exotic Dance Research: A Review of the Literature from 1970-2008 | Sexuality & Culture
Wahab, S., Baker, L., Smith, J., Cooper, K., & Lerum, K. 2011.
Toward an Interdisciplinary Dialogue on Youth, Sexualization, and Health | Journal of Sex Research
Lerum, K., & Dworkin, S.L. 2009.
'Bad Girls Rule': An Interdisciplinary Feminist Commentary on the APA Task Force on the Sexualization of Girls | Journal of Sex Research
Lerum, K., & Dworkin, S..L. 2009.
Research Circles: Supporting the Scholarship of Junior Faculty | Innovative Higher Education
Gillespie, D., Dolsak, N., Kochis, B., Krabill, R., Lerum, K., Peterson, A., & Thomas, E. 2005.
Sexuality, Power, & Camaraderie in Service Work | Gender & Sexuality
Lerum, K. 2004. (UW Press release resulted in dozens of news stories and several requests for radio and TV interviews).
Subjects of Desire: Academic Armor, Intimate Ethnography, & the Production of Critical Knowledge | Qualitative Inquiry
Lerum, K. 2001. (First place graduate paper, Social Problems Theory Division, Sociology for the Study of Social Problems, 2000).
12-Step Feminism makes Sex Workers Sick: How the State and the Recovery Movement turn Radical Women into 'Useless Citizens' | Sexuality & Culture
Lerum, K. 1998. (First place graduate paper, Culture Section, American Sociological Association, 1999).
