France Winddance Twine is a Professor of Sociology at the University of California-Santa Barbara. She is a feminist theorist and ethnographer who has conducted research in Brazil, the US and the United Kingdom. Her research interests focus on critical race theory, feminist theory, comparative racial studies, social inequality, girlhood, and visual ethnography. She is currently completing a book titled A White Side of Black Europe which is under contract with Duke University Press. Her recent articles have appeared in Ethnic & Racial Studies, Feminist Studies, Meridians, and Social Identities: journal of race, nation and culture. She is the author of Racism in a Racial Democracy: The maintenance of white supremacy in Brazil (1997) and an editor of four volumes including Feminism and Antiracism: international struggles for justice (2001) and Racing Research, Researching Race: methodological dilemmas in critical race studies (1999). She currently serves on the editorial boards of Sociological Theory and Ethnic and Racial Studies. As a graduate student she co-produced a documentary titled Just Black? Multiracial Identity which earned numerous awards including American Film & Video Festival (1992) and National Educational Film and Video Festival (1992). In 2001 she was awarded a residency by the Rockefeller Foundation at the Bellagio Study and Conference Center in Italy. She earned her B.A. from Northwestern University and her Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley. She was born and grew up in Chicago.