Serena Nanda is professor emeritus of anthropology at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY. She is the co-author of two textbooks, Cultural Anthropology (12th edition) and Culture Counts (5^th edition, forthcoming). Her published works include Neither Man nor Woman: The Hijras of India, winner of the l990 Ruth Benedict Prize (2^nd edition l999); Gender Diversity: Cross Cultural Variations (2^nd edition 2014); and Cultural Pluralism and Law (3^rd. edition, with Jill Norgren). She is also the Associate Editor for the Gender section of the International Encyclopedia of Sexuality (2015), and has written two anthropological murder mysteries, Gift of a Bride and Assisted Dying (with Joan Gregg). Nanda has also authored many encyclopedia articles on the hijras, sex/gender diversity, love and marriage in India, museum studies, and teaching anthropology. Her latest book, Love and Marriage: Cultural Diversity in a Changing World was published by Waveland Press in 2019.