“…A delightful, highly useful, guidebook for activist professors….”

— Amitai Etzioni, The Solutions Journal

“This relatively short book shows one way in which academics can justify our privileged position and enhance the quality of research and teaching in the process. The Public Professor should be required reading.”   

— Times Higher Education

"Badgett provides cogent advice and time-tested guidelines for scholars interested in expanding their research results beyond academia...an accessible and thought-provoking primer."   

— Library Journal

“The Public Professor has much to offer by exploring what is possible for those who want to change the world."  

— Nature

"This is the best analysis of same-sex marriage to date. A brilliant book." 

—Verta Taylor,co-author of Drag Queens at the 801 Cabaret

"Badgett’s gleanings are enlightening . . . for anyone who cares about the issues raised by legalizing civil marriage for same-sex couples." 

—California Lawyer

"Amid the intense controversy still surrounding same-sex marriage in the U.S., Badgett speaks in a refreshingly tempered voice. . . . Its a fine piece of social-science research, painstakingly detailed and compelling in its findings." 

—Ms. Magazine

"On the heels of marriage debates all over the country, professor M.V. Lee Badgett comes out with an in-depth take on the big marriage questions: why and how? Badgett looks at marriage from all sides of the equation: sociological trends, the specific rights at hand as well as the interesting prospects of how a community shaped by legal inequality will adjust to unimaginable legal equality." 

—Instinct