Mary Kosut is a cultural sociologist and Associate Professor of Sociology and Media Society and the Arts at Purchase College, State University of New York. She is co-author of Buzz: Urban Beekeeping and the Power of the Bee (New York University Press, 2013), editor of The Encyclopedia of Gender in Media (Sage, 2012) and co-author of The Body Reader: Essential Social and Cultural Readings (New York University Press, 2010). She is currently working on the manuscript Another Art World: Alternative Art Economies in New York City. She lives in Brooklyn.