Robyn Ryle
photo credit: Joey Ernst
Robyn Ryle is a writer and a professor of sociology and gender studies at Hanover College in Hanover, Indiana.
She received her PhD in sociology from Indiana University-Bloomington and is originally from northern Kentucky. She is the author of a young adult novel, FAIR GAME, about a girls’ basketball team that challenges the boys to a high-stakes game, and of THROW LIKE A GIRL, CHEER LIKE A BOY: THE EVOLUTION OF GENDER, IDENTITY, AND RACE IN SPORTS about the history of sports from a sociological perspective.
Books
SEX OF THE MIDWEST
One foggy morning, an email appears in inboxes across the small town of Lanier, Indiana, population 12,234. “Invitation to Participate: Sexual Practices in a Small Midwestern Town,” the subject line reads. A link leads to an extensive survey, but why has Lanier been chosen? And by whom? Street by street and house by house, the email opens up the secret (and not-so-secret) lives of one small town, and reveals the surprising complexity of life (and sex) in the Midwest in our post-pandemic times.
