Kelly Sharron

Kelly Sharron is an Assistant Professor in Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies at the University of Kansas, USA. Sharron completed her PhD in Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of Arizona in 2019. Her research broadly considers the multiple state tactics at play in police brutality including the extension of a feminist ethic of care in producing violent effects and Marxist feminisms in reproductive labour and care work. Sharron’s work has been published in Somatechnics, TSQ: Trans Studies Quarterly, and Abolition Journal. She is the co-editor of Feminist Studies: An Introductory Reader (2025).