Research & Scholarship

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Professional Identities, Careers, & Workplace Culture

Brandy L. Simula and Tracy L. Scott. 2021. "Disciplining Academic Identities: Boundaries and Identity Work among Arts and Sciences Faculty." Social Currents (Online First)

Brandy L. Simula and Tracy L. Scott. 2020. "The Impact of of Pressures to Produce on Knowledge Production and Evaluation in the Modern Academy." Social Sciences 9(64):1-13.

Identities, Inequalities, and Gender and Sexualities

Brandy L. Simula, Robin Bauer, and Liam Wignall, editors. 2023. The Power of BDSM: Play, Communities, and Consent in the 21st Century. Oxford University Press.

Brandy L. Simula. 2021. Guest Editor. BDSM Studies special issue of Sexualities. Online first.

Brandy L Simula. 2021. “Introduction to the Special Issue.” Sexualities. Online first.

Brandy L. Simula. 2021. Guest Editor. Gender & Identity special issue of Social Sciences.

Brandy L. Simula. 2019. "Power, Pain, and Pleasure: A Review of the Literature on the Experiences of BDSM Participants." Sociology Compass 13(3).

Brandy L. Simula, J.E. Sumerau, and Andrea Miller, editors. (2019). Expanding the Rainbow: The Relationships of Bi+, Polyamorous, Kink, Ace, Intersex, and Trans People. Sense | Brill.

Brandy L. Simula, J.E. Sumerau, and Andrea Miller. 2019. “Introduction: The Full Range of the Rainbow,” in Expanding the Rainbow: Exploring the Relationships of Bi+ Trans, Ace, Poly, Kink, and Intersex People. Brill.

Brandy L. Simula. 2019. "A 'Different Economy of Bodies and Pleasures'?: Differentiating and Evaluating Sex and Sexual BDSM Experiences." ​Journal of Homosexuality 66(2):209-237.

Brandy L. Simula and J.E. Sumerau. 2019. "The Use of Gender in the Interpretation of BDSM." Sexualities 22(3):452-477.

Alison Better and Brandy L. Simula. 2015. "How and For Whom Does Gender Matter?: Rethinking the Concept of Sexual Orientation." Sexualities 18(5/6): 665-680.

Brandy L. Simula. 2012. "Does Bisexuality 'Undo' Gender?: Gender, Sexuality, and Bisexual Behavior Among BDSM Participants." Journal of Bisexuality 12(4): 484-506.

2014. "'Give Me a Dominant of Any Gender Over Any Kind of Non-Dominant': Sexual Orientation Beyond Gender." pp. 163-178 in Selves, Symbols, and Sexualities: An Interactionist Anthology, edited by Thomas Weinberg and Staci Newmahr. Sage Press.

2013. "Queer Utopias in Painful Spaces: BDSM Participants Resisting Heteronormativity and Gender Regulation." pp. 71-100 in A Critical Inquiry into Queer Utopias, edited by Angela Jones. Palgrave Macmillan.