Professor Connor Strobel is a Harper-Schmidt Fellow in the Society of Fellows and Collegiate Assistant Professor in the College, here, at the University of Chicago. A sociologist by training, his research is generally interested in contested identities --- how our identities become sources of personal and group conflict. He is an internationally recognized expert on the social dynamics of eating disorders and has written widely on other topics including the politics of deviance, debates within Islam feminism, and the rules of speech on social media platforms. Professor Strobel’s first co-authored book titled The Politics of “Perverts”: The Political Attitudes and Actions of Non-traditional Sexual Minorities is forthcoming with NYU Press. His work has been published or is forthcoming in journals such as Gender Issues, The International Journal of Environmental Science and Public Health, and Sociology Compass. Professor Strobel’s research and student advocacy has been covered by the media outlets such as the LA Times, PBS Newshour, San Francisco Chronicle, and the Eating Disorder Association of Ireland.