Samantha Majic earned her PhD in Government from Cornell University. She is Professor of political science at John Jay College, and she is also a faculty member in the doctoral programs in Political Science and Criminal Justice at the CUNY Graduate Center. Her research lies in gender and American politics, with specific interests in sex work, civic engagement, and celebrities and politics. She is the author of Sex Work Politics: From Protest to Service Provision (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014), co-editor (with Carisa Showden) of Negotiating Sex Work: Unintended Consequences of Policy and Activism (University of Minnesota Press, 2014), co-author (with Carisa Showden) of Youth Who Trade Sex in the US: Agency, Intersectionality, and Vulnerability (Temple University Press, 2018), and the author of Lights, Camera, Feminism? Celebrities and Anti-trafficking Politics (University of California Press, 2023). Her research has also appeared in numerous political science, policy, and gender studies journals. A Fellow of the American Association of University Women, and a Woodhull Freedom Foundation grantee, Dr. Majic is also a member of the editorial boards for Perspectives on Politics, Critical Policy Studies, and Sexuality Research and Social Policy.