Mireille Miller-Young, Ph.D., is Associate Professor of Feminist Studies at University of California, Santa Barbara. She researches and teaches about race, gender, and sexuality in US history, popular culture, and the sex industries. Her book, A Taste for Brown Sugar: Black Women in Pornography (Duke University Press, 2014) earned the John Hope Franklin Prize for Best Book from the American Studies Association and the Sara A. Whaley Prize from the National Women's Studies Association. She is a co-editor of The Feminist Porn Book: The Politics of Producing Pleasure (The Feminist Press, 2013).A former University of California President’s Postdoctoral Fellow and UC Regents’ Humanities Fellow, she is a founder of the New Sexualities Research Focus Group at UC Santa Barbara and a convener of the Black Sexual Economies Project at Washington University.