Author/Professor

I’m a sociologist who studies gender, sexuality, the family, and culture– particularly as they relate to occupations. Specifically, I analyze non-normative (“deviant”) behaviors and how they illuminate core features of social life.

I received my BA in English/Creative Writing from Princeton University in 2002, my PhD in Sociology from Columbia University in 2010, and I’m currently an Associate Professor of Sociology at Lehigh University.

I am the author of three books: Dominatrix: Gender, Eroticism, and Control in the Dungeon (University of Chicago Press, 2012), Commuter Spouses: New Families in a Changing World (Cornell University Press, 2019), and True Story: What Reality TV Says about Us (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2022).

My research has been featured in media outlets such as The New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, The Economist, The Atlantic, The Washington Post, U.S. News & World Report, CNN, Jezebel, USA Today, and Rolling Stone. I’ve been interviewed about my work on television programs such as ABC News and radio shows like NPR’s “It’s Been a Minute,” and I’ve written opinion pieces for CNN, Newsweek, Salon, Fortune, and Quartz.

I live in Princeton, NJ with my husband, two daughters, and three (updated 4/14/23) goldfish. In my downtime, I’m a fan of crossword puzzles and really, really terrible reality television.

Read more at her website www.DanielleLindemann.com