Prof. Dr. Janet Bennion

Dr. Janet Bennion is a professor of sociocultural anthropology with global expertise in polygamy and polyamory with special interest in the areas of gender dynamics, alternative sexuality, and social network theory. She has an M.A. in Social Anthropology from Portland State University and a Ph.D. in Cultural Anthropology from University of Utah. She is the preeminent world scholar on plural marriage among Mormon Fundamentalist groups, having published extensively on female networking and the variability of poly lifestyles, including Women of Principle (University of Oxford Press, 1998) and Polygamy in Primetime (Brandeis University Press 2012). Her most recent research explores polyamory networks in Paris where she is testing the efficacy of network theory (published in Sexualities, 2020).