Maxine Leeds Craig is an American professor, working in the sociology department at the University of California, Davis.
[1] Craig was a doctoral student of Todd Gitlin at the University of California, Berkeley; her doctoral dissertation became the book, Ain't I a Beauty Queen?
Black Women, Beauty, and the Politics of Race (2002).
[2] Her second book, Sorry I Don't Dance: Why Men Refuse to Move (2013), was awarded the 2014 Best Publication Award of the American Sociological Association's section on Body and Embodiment.
[3] She was chair of the American Sociological Association Section on Race, Gender, and Class for 2009–2010.