Dustin Kidd is Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at Temple. He holds a PhD in Sociology and an MA in American Studies/English, both from the University of Virginia, as well as a BA in Religious Studies from James Madison University.  A sociologist of culture focusing on art and popular culture, Dustin Kidd has published articles in journals such as Research in Political Sociology, The Journal of Popular Culture, AfterImage, and The Hedgehog Review. 

As a Faculty Fellow at CHAT, Dustin Kidd will be working on his book manuscript Legislating Creativity: The Intersections of Art and Politics.  The book revisits the controversies surrounding the National Endowment for the Arts in the Late 1980s and early 1990s, focusing on what the controversies reveal about the relationship between art and politics.  He is particularly focused now on a chapter about the Guerrilla Girls.