Kate Henley Averett received her PhD in Sociology from the University of Texas at Austin in May 2016 and will join the faculty at the University at Albany, State University of New York as an Assistant Professor of Sociology in Fall 2016. Kate’s research focuses on how discourses of gender and sexuality shape childhood and parenting in the United States. She is currently working on a book that examines the competing discourses of childhood gender and sexuality within the homeschooling movement in Texas.