Graff, E.J.

Author and journalist, E.J. Graff graduated from Ohio University (B.A. 1979) and Warren Wilson College (M.F.A. 1986). The author of What Is Marriage For? The Strange Social History of Our Most Intimate Institution (1999) and, with Evelyn Murphy, Getting Even: Why Women Still Don't Get Paid Like Men - And What to Do About It (2005), Graff writes widely about issues of marriage and family, women's lives, and the lives of lesbians, gay men, bisexual, and transgendered people. She was a contributing editor to The American Prospect, a contributing writer to Out magazine, and her work appears frequently in the New York Times Magazine, the Washington Post, and the Nation, among many others. Since 2001 she has been a resident scholar at the Brandeis Women's Studies Research Center, and she heads the Gender and Justice Project at Brandeis' Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism. Widely respected as an expert in social policy, she is frequently interviewed and lectures widely in the United States and abroad.