Research Bio

Leslie Salzinger is a scholar of gender, political economy, and capitalist globalization whose work examines how capitalism, gender, labor and finance intersect across transnational sites. She uses ethnography and critical theory to analyze how gendered subjects are produced through work, finance, and social reproduction—particularly in Latin America. Her research investigates circuits of capital, power, and subjectivity, exploring how gender is constituted through political economic processes and how capitalism as a whole is structured in and through gender in turn.She is best known for her influential writings on capitalism’s gendered dimensions and for bridging feminist theory with economic sociology.

She is Associate Professor in the Department of Gender and Women’s Studies, and is affiliated with Sociology and the program in Critical Theory.

Research Expertise and Interest

sociology of gender, capitalism, financialization, Marxian political economy, social reproduction, Gender and Work, ethnography, Latin America, Mexico