Don Kulick is professor of Anthropology and director of the Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality at New York University. Kulick received his B.A. in Anthropology and Linguistics from Lund University in Sweden in 1983 and his Ph.D. in Anthropology from Stockholm University in 1990. Previous academic positions include both Stockholm and Linköping Universities. He has been considered one of Sweden's foremost queer theorists and, together with Tiina Rosenberg, was influential in introducing queer theory to Sweden.