Role: PhD Candidate, University of Georgia
Athens, GA

  Contact: kreis@uga.edu

  Research Interests:
Sexual Orientation | Public Policy | Public Administration & Managment

Anthony Michael Kreis is a doctoral student at the University of Georgia where he specializes in sexual orientation, public policy, and the law. In 2011, he earned his law degree from Washington & Lee.

While taking up visiting student status at the University of Virginia during his law school tenure, he studied under the direction of civil rights leader Julian Bond and simultaneously began to actively engage in sexual orientation policy issues.  Since 2010, he's worked under a national cohort of law faculty on religious liberty issues in proposed same-sex marriage legislation and is currently authoring a series of law review articles and a full length book on the topic. 

Kreis has lectured at a number of universities on marriage equality including Emory, Virginia, North Carolina, and Wake Forest.  His academic work has been featured in a variety of publications including the online companion of the Yale Law Journal, the Journal of Law & Inequality, the N.Y.U. Review of Law & Social Change, and SCOTUSblog. 

He currently serves as the political co-chair for the Human Rights Campaign in Atlanta and lobbies the Georgia State Legislature on civil rights issues.  Anthony also blogs for the Huffington Post on LGBT rights issues.

While at Emory, he worked on refining his research on marriage equality in the legislative process and undertake a project studying judicial constructions of LGBT political power in Equal Protection jurisprudence.