LGBTQ Academics in Sexuality Studies
Sexuality Studies is composed of academic research programs into the role sexuality plays in the economic, cultural, artistic, political, technology, social and literary worlds. In this context, sexuality broadly includes aspects of race, gender, age, nationality, disability, religion, and more. It brings theory and observation related to sexuality into the conversation with research in the humanities, social sciences and natural sciences. Sexuality research encompasses both sex and sexual health.
The goal of Sexuality Studies is to provide context in how sexuality impacts work, creativity, and social conditions in both the national and international world. Its purpose is to question assumptions on this impact and provide more pragmatic insight based on extensive academic research.
The intersection of these aspects of sexuality with the inter-disciplinary professional world is the subject of courses, research and theses. Much of this work looks at the social relations of power in a variety of cultural and historical contexts, practices, and texts. Many of the Sexuality Studies programs are affiliated with centres that include feminist, queer and gender studies.
It is natural that LGBTQ academics are prominent in the field of Sexuality Studies. As LGBTQ issues have risen in prominence in society, gender and sexuality have become central to the analysis rather than peripheral, and much of this increased focus has been due to the extensive research and commentary produced by these academics.
The Sexuality Studies Association (SSA) is a multi- and interdisciplinary association for scholars, artists, activists and other community members, who have an interest in the teaching and study of sex, sexuality and gender diversity.
We have identified the following LGBTQ academics who are prominent in the field of Sexuality Studies. Simply click on their names to reveal their fascinating biographies.
Australia
- Peter Aggleton, University of New South Wales
- Peter Robinson, Swinburne University of Technology
Brazil
Canada
- Mary Bryson, University of British Columbia
- Brenda Cossman, University of Toronto
- Aaron Devor, University of Victoria
- Maureen Fitzgerald, University of Toronto
- Sarah Kaplan, University of Toronto
- Mariana Valverde, University of Toronto
Chile
- Rolando Jimenez, Center for the Study of Sexuality
France
- Michel Foucault, College de France
Germany
- Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld, Institute for Sexual Research
- Rudiger Lautmann, University of Bremen
Great Britain
- Meg Barker, Open University
- Henry Havelock Ellis, Galton Institute
- Jeffrey Weeks, London South Bank University
Indonesia
- Dede Oetomo, Airlangga University
Peru
- Violeta Barrientos, San Marcos University
Portugal
- Miguel Vale de Almeida, Instituto Superior de Ciências do Trabalho e da Empresa (ISCTE)
South Africa
- Graeme Reid, Yale University
Spain
- Juan Vincente Aliaga, Valencian Faculty of Fine Arts
Taiwan
- Josephine Ho, National Central University
The Netherlands
- Gert Hekma, University of Amsterdam
United States
- Henry D. Abelove, Wesleyan University
- S. Andrea Allen, Western University
- Eric Anderson (medicine), University of Winchester
- Aren Aizura, University of Minnesota
- Leo Bersani, University of California, Berkeley
- Tom Boellstorff, University of California at Irvine
- Jonathan Branfam, University of Ohio
- Michael Bronski, Harvard University
- John P. de Cecco, San Francisco State University
- Helene Cixous, Cornell University
- Christina Crosby, Wesleyan University
- Heath Fogg Davis, Temple University
- Qwo-Li Driskill, Oregon State University
- Kristin Esterberg, State University of New York, Potsdam
- Laura Erickson-Schroth, Columbia University
- Ardel Haefele-Thomas, City College of San Francisco
- David M. Halperin, University of Michigan
- Susan Henking, Shimer College
- Loraine Hutchins, Montgomery College
- Matt Kailey, Red Rocks Community College
- Laurie Marhoefer, University of Washington
- Sandra Moran, Johnson County Community College
- Kevin J. Mumford, University of Illinois
- Cameron Partridge, Harvard University
- James Polchin, New York University
- Gayle Salamon, Princeton University
- James M. Saslow, City University of New York
- Darieck Scott, Unversity of California, Berkeley
- Julietta Singh, University of Richmond
- C. Riley Snorton, Cornell University
- Marc Stein, San Francisco State University
- Susan Stryker, University of Arizona
- Karen Tongson, USC
- John Whittier Treat, Yale University
- Martha Vicinus, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor
- Suzanna Danuta Walters, Northeastern University
See Also
- Academics Specializing in the History of the LGBTQ Community
- LGBTQ Individuals and Academics of the Renaissance Period
- Transgender Academics
- LGBTQ Leaders in Higher Education
- Queer Theorists
- School Teachers, Researchers and Education Staff Who Identify as LGBTQ
