Terrell Winder is an urban ethnographer. His research areas include race and ethnicity, sexuality and sexual health, qualitative research methods and education. His research on the effect of religion on sexual and racial identity was published in the journal Qualitative Sociology, and his health projects on the impact of HIV on Black men have been published in AIDS Patient Care & STDs, the Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities and the Journal of Medical Internet Research. He joined UCSB's Department of Sociology in 2019.