Bernadette Barton

• Director for Gender Studies in the Dept. of Sociology, Social Work & Criminology 

Education

• Ph.D., University of Kentucky

Profile

Dr. Bernadette Barton is the Director of Gender Studies at Morehead State University. Barton is co-editor of "Sex Work Today: Erotic Labor in the 21st Century" (2024), author of "The Pornification of America: How Raunch Culture is Ruining Our Society" (2021), "Stripped: More Stories from Exotic Dancers" (2017), "Pray the Gay Away: The Extraordinary Lives of Bible Belt Gays" (2012), "Stripped: Inside the Lives of Exotic Dancers" (2006), and co-author of "Queer Resistance in Appalachia" (forthcoming). Her research and teaching explore contemporary issues of gender, sexuality, religion, culture, happiness, and the sex industry.