Fine Lines: Classifying, Framing, and Policing Symbolic Interaction

Dr. Newmahr is an ethnographer and symbolic interactionist whose work plays with intersections of gender, nonconformity, risk-taking, emotions, and eroticism. Dr. Newmahr’s fi rst book, Playing on the Edge: Risk, Intimacy, and Sadomasochism, was published in 2011 by Indiana University Press. She has also published in Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Symbolic Interaction, and Qualitative Sociology. She is Associate Editor of Symbolic Interaction and co-editor of an anthology of original work entitled Selves, Symbols, and Sexualities (with Dr. Tom Weinberg). Dr. Newmahr is currently studying fringe communities and practices.