Theodora K. Hurley is a doctoral candidate in sociology at the University of Chicago. She works in the areas of gender and sexuality, health and medicine, and social studies of knowledge. Underpinning her work is an interest in how institutions, inequalities, and different forms of knowledge shape health, bodies, and identities. Her dissertation research uses ethnographic and interview methods to understand how alternative/traditional and biomedical knowledges, practices, and institutions interact. Another research project uses statistical and mixed methods to investigate why bisexual people have worse health outcomes than straight, gay, and lesbian people alike. She is Associate Editor of the American Journal of Sociology, and her research is supported by the National Science Foundation and the National Institute of Social Sciences.