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Barbara J. Risman is College of Liberal Arts & Sciences Distinguished Professor Emerita at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Professor Risman is the immediate past Editor of Gender & Society. Her most recent book is Where the Millennials Will Take Us: A New Generation Wrestles with the Gender Structure (Oxford University Press, 2018). Her current work focuses on empirical and theoretical examination of the growing visibility of non-binary people, their experiences, and how their lives help us understand the gender structure. She won the 2024 Council on Contemporary Families Lifetime Achievement and was awarded the Distinguished Lecturer Award in 2023 and the Award for Lifetime Contributions to the Study of Gender in 2005 from the Southern Sociological Society. The American Sociological Association honored Professor Risman with the 2011 Award for the Public Understanding of Sociology. Professor Risman has been a Visiting Fellow at The Institute for Advanced Studies at Durham University in the UK, the Center for Advanced Study of Behavioral Sciences at Stanford, and most recently at the Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg Institute for Advanced Study in Delmenhorst, Germany.