Samantha Majic

Samantha Majic
Occupation	Political scientist & Professor
Employer	John Jay College & CUNY Graduate Center
Academic background
Alma mater	Cornell University & York University
Thesis	Protest by other means? Sex workers, social movement evolution and the political possibilities of nonprofit service provision  (2010)

Samantha Ann Majic is a political scientist and professor of political science and criminal justice at John Jay College in New York City, and a faculty member at the CUNY Graduate Center. She is known for her work in gender and American politics.

Education

Majic received her B.A. from University of Toronto in 2001. She has two master's degrees, one from Cornell University (2006) and a second from York University in Toronto, Canada (2003). She received her Ph.D from Cornell University in 2009 from the university's department of government. ^{[1] [2]}

Work

Majic is known for her work on themes of women and gender justice, sex work, human trafficking, and social movements. She examined the impact of the St. James Infirmary in San Francisco, California to investigate gender ideologies in the United States. ^[3] She also works on the role of non-profit organisations in political activity and social change. ^[4]

Selected publications

• Majic, Samantha (2013-12-19). Sex Work Politics: From Protest to Service Provision. Philadelphia, Pa: University of Pennsylvania Press. ISBN   978-0-8122-0902-0. ^[5]
• Showden, Carisa Renae; Majic, Samantha, eds. (2014). Negotiating Sex Work: Unintended Consequences of Policy and Activism. University of Minnesota Press. ISBN   978-1-4529-4933-8. ^[6]
• Showden, Carisa R.; Majic, Samantha (2018-06-29). Youth Who Trade Sex in the U.S. Philadelphia: Temple University Press. ISBN   978-1-4399-1620-9. ^[7]
• Majic, Samantha (2023-05-16). Lights, Camera, Feminism?. Oakland, California: Univ of California Press. ISBN   978-0-520-38490-3.

References

1. "Samantha Majic CV" (PDF). John Jay College - City University of New York. May 2025.
2. "Samantha Majic - John Jay College of Criminal Justice". www.jjay.cuny.edu. Retrieved 2025-04-04.
3. Majic, Samantha (2014). "BEYOND "VICTIM-CRIMINALS": Sex Workers, Nonprofit Organizations, and Gender Ideologies". Gender and Society. 28 (3): 463–485. doi:10.1177/0891243214524623. ISSN   0891-2432. JSTOR   43669893.
4. Majic, Samantha (2011). "Serving Sex Workers and Promoting Democratic Engagement: Rethinking Nonprofits' Role in American Civic and Political Life". Perspectives on Politics. 9 (4): 821–839. doi:10.1017/S1537592711003951. ISSN   1537-5927. JSTOR   41623696.
5. Reviews of Sex Work Politics
   • Chevrier, Claudyne (2017). "Review of Sex Work Politics: From Protest to Service Provision". Labour / Le Travail. 79: 292–294. doi:10.1353/llt.2017.0026. ISSN   0700-3862. JSTOR   44820395.
   • Wesson, Marianne (2015). Majic, Samantha (ed.). "Keeping the Mission Alive". The Women's Review of Books. 32 (1): 12–13. ISSN   0738-1433. JSTOR   24430646.
   • Feldman, Valerie (2015). "Review of Sex Work Politics: From Protest to Service Provision". Gender and Society. 29 (2): 307–309. doi:10.1177/0891243214548921. ISSN   0891-2432. JSTOR   43669968.
6. Reviews of Negotiating Sex Work
   • Ferguson, Michaele L. (2015). Grant, Melissa Gira; Majic, Samantha; Remick, Elizabeth J.; Showden, Carisa R. (eds.). "Beyond Gender Politics? Mainstreaming the Study of Sex Work". Perspectives on Politics. 13 (2): 437–445. doi:10.1017/S1537592715000250. ISSN   1537-5927. JSTOR   43867045.
   • Crowhurst, Isabel (2015). "Negotiating Sex Work: Unintended Consequences of Policy and Activism. Edited by Carisa R. Showden and Samantha Majic . Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2014. 368 pp. $27.50 paper. - Sex Work Politics: From Protest to Service Provision. By Samantha Majic . Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014. 216 pp. $49.95 paper". Politics & Gender. 11 (3): 596–601. doi:10.1017/S1743923X15000355. ISSN   1743-923X.
7. Reviews of Youth Who Trade Sex in the US
   • Musto, Jennifer (2021). "Youth Who Trade Sex in the U.S.: Intersectionality, Agency, and Vulnerability. By Carisa R. Showden and Samantha Majic. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2018. 244p. $92.50 cloth, $29.95 paper". Perspectives on Politics. 19 (3): 1003–1005. doi:10.1017/S1537592721001365. ISSN   1537-5927.
   • Hail-Jares, Katie (2019). "Youth Who Trade Sex in the U.S.: Intersectionality, Agency, and Vulnerability". Contemporary Sociology: A Journal of Reviews. 48 (6): 695–697. doi:10.1177/0094306119880196hh. ISSN   0094-3061.

External links

• Samantha Majic publications indexed by Google Scholar