Marlon M. Bailey is an associate professor of women and gender studies. Bailey's book, "Butch Queens Up in Pumps: Gender, Performance, and Ballroom Culture in Detroit," a performance ethnography of ballroom culture (UM-Press, 2013), was awarded the Alan Bray Memorial Book Prize by the GL/Q Caucus of the Modern Language Association. Some of the journals in which Bailey has published are Feminist Studies,Souls, Gender, Place, and Culture, The Journal of Gay and Lesbian Social Services, and AIDS and Patient Care. Professor Bailey is currently conducting an ethnographic study of the impact of the HIV/AIDS epidemic on Black gay subjectivity.