The great-grand­nephew of the founder of the Ide­al Toy Cor­po­ra­tion, Michael Kim­mel is a SUNY dis­tin­guished pro­fes­sor emer­i­tus of soci­ol­o­gy and gen­der stud­ies and founder of the Cen­ter for the Study of Men and Mas­culin­i­ties at Stony Brook Uni­ver­si­ty. The author of Guy­land, he lives in Brook­lyn, New York.