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Baker A. Rogers is an Associate Professor of Sociology and the Master of Arts in Social Science Program Director at Georgia Southern University. Baker received their Ph.D. in Sociology with a Certificate in Gender Studies from Mississippi State University, their Master of Social Work from Winthrop University, and their Bachelor’s in Sociology from Presbyterian College. Their research focuses on the intersections of gender, sexuality, and religion in the U.S. South. Their books, Conditionally Accepted: Christians’ Perspectives on Sexuality and Gay and Lesbian Civil Rights (Rutgers University Press); Trans Men in the South: Becoming Men (Lexington Books); King of Hearts: Drag Kings in the American South (Rutgers University Press); Advances in Trans Studies: Moving Toward Gender Expansion and Trans Hope (Emerald Publishing); Gender and Sexuality in the Southern United States (Cognella); and, Gender and Sexuality in the Classroom: An Educator’s Guide (Routledge), can be found online. Their work is also published in numerous academic journals including, Men and Masculinities; Journal of Interpersonal Violence; Gender & Society;and Qualitative Sociology. 

Brown, M., Rogers, B. A., & Caldwell, M. (2022). Gender and sexuality in the classroom: An educator’s guide. Routledge Eye on Education Series.

Caldwell, J., Borsa, A. Rogers, B. A., Roemerman, R., & Wright, E. (2022). LGBTQ mental health: Outness, discrimination, and serious mental health. LGBT Health.

Rogers, S. A., & Rogers, B. A. (2022). Advantages and challenges of queer scholars doing qualitative queer criminology and criminal justice research. Crime & Delinquency.

Rogers, B. A. (2022). Trans manhood: The intersections of masculinities, queerness, and the South. Men and Masculinities.

Rogers, B. A. (2022). Evidence for hope: Mississippi Christians’ views toward gay & lesbian equality post Obergefell v. Hodges. Sexuality Research and Social Policy.

Johnson, A. H., Rogers, B. A., & Taylor, T. (2021). Advances in trans studies: Moving toward gender expansion and trans hope. Advances in Gender Research. Volume 32. Emerald Group Publishing. 

Rogers, B. A. (2021). King of hearts: Drag kings in the southeastern United States. Rutgers University Press.

Rogers, B. A. (2021). Gender and sexuality in the southern United States: A reader. First Edition. Cognella. 

Phillips, M., & Rogers, B. A. (2021). How trans men in the South bolster their claims to manhood: Brotherhood & subjugation of women. Sociological Spectrum.

Rogers, B. A. (2021). Evidence for hope: Mississippi Christians’ toward gay & lesbian equality post Obergefell v. Hodges. Sexuality Research and Social Policy. 

Rogers, S. A., & Rogers, B. A. (2021). Trans men’s pathways to incarceration. Sociological Spectrum.

Rogers, B. A. (2020). Trans men in the South: Becoming men. Lexington Books.

Sorgen, K., & Rogers, B. A. (2020). Recognizing and supporting queer students in rural areas. New Directions in Student Services.

Rogers, B. A. (2020). Researching while queer: An autoethnographic research note about a genderqueer lesbian conducting qualitative research in the southeastern United States. International Journal of Social Research Methodology. 

Rogers, S. A., & Rogers, B. A. (2020). Expanding our view: Demographic, behavioral, and contextual factors in college sexual victimization. Journal of Interpersonal Violence.

Johnson, A. H., & Rogers, B. A. (2020). “We’re the normal ones here”: Community involvement, peer support, and transgender mental health. Sociological Inquiry.

Rogers, B. A. (2019). Conditionally accepted: Christians’ perspectives on homosexuality & gay and lesbian civil rights. Rutgers University Press.

Johnson, A. H., Gibson-Hill, I., Beach-Ferrara, J., Rogers, B. A., & Bradford, A. (2019). Common barriers to healthcare for transgender people in the U.S. Southeast. International Journal of Transgenderism

Rogers, B. A. (2019). “Contrary to all the shit I said”: Trans men passing in the South. Qualitative Sociology.  

Rogers, B. A. (2018). Drag as a resource: Trans* and non-binary individuals in the southeastern United States. Gender & Society.

Rogers, B. A., & Ryalls, E. (2016). Technologizing feminist pedagogy: Using blog activism in the gender studies classroom. Feminist Teacher.

Rogers, B. A., & Kelly, K. (2016). Live like a king, y’all: Gender negotiation and the performance of masculinity among southern drag kings. Sexualities.

Rogers, B. A., & Brauner-Otto, S. R. (2015). My friend is gay, but… The effects of social contact on Christian evangelicals’ beliefs about gays & lesbians. Review of Religious Research.