Dissertation projects for the Human Sexuality PhD Program.
Alumni
- Ericka Burns, PhD - I’m not coming out; you’re just coming in: Examining Black sexual identity formation in sexual fluidity research
- Clarissa Francis, PhD - How is Pleasure Activism helpful for Black Women's healing from historical, societal, and lived experiences from inter-sectional trauma?
- Bo Frank, PhD - TRANSGENDER STUDENTS AND U.S. SEXUALITY EDUCATION: TOWARDS A HOLISTIC MODEL OF K-12 SEXUALITY EDUCATION
- Lucretia Futrell, PhD - IS PORN THE NEW MISTRESS?: A SEXUAL BETRAYAL STUDY
- Elliott Kronenfeld, PhD, LMSW, MS - Implications of Infidelity: A Discourse Analysis of Disenfranchised Grief Experienced by Men in Couples Therapy for Infidelity Recovery
- Roger Kuhn, PhD, LMFT - Two-Spirit Love
- Judi Passy, PhD, MS - Transgender Competencies in Counseling Programs
- Melissa Risso, PhD, MA - Female Poly-Morphism - Women's Negotiation and Transition to Polyamory Practices
- Ariel Sheeger, PhD - Competencies for Counseling Sex Work Couples
- Giacinta Talarico, PhD, LMSW - SEXUAL LIQUIDITY: SPECTRAL POSSIBILITIES, ASSEMBLAGES, AND AFFECT
Doctoral candidates
- Elisabeth Bolaza, PhD Candidate, MPH - The Birth Pleasure Study
- Alejandra Chayet, PhD Candidate - Self Compassion and Female Sexual Functioning
- Andres Cordero, PhD Candidate - Transformational Healing: A Phenomenological Examination of the Practice of Sacred Intimacy as Taught by the Body Electric School
- Antonio Bernard-Davis, PhD Candidate - The Black Church as a Riskscape: Masculinity in the Black Church for Black Men who have Sex with Men in the era of HIV Pre-exposure Prophylaxis
- Makayla Elkin, PhD Candidate - A Study of Fake Orgasms and Social Exchange
- Angelina Hensley, PhD Student, MA - Mystical Feminine Jouissance
- Nathalie Huitema-Nuijens, PhD Candidate - To Consent Or Not To Consent: Determinants of Sexual Consent Capacity in Long-Term Dementia Care
- Stefan Lucke, PhD Candidate - Sexual Competence in Late Childhood: A Qualitative Inquiry with Young Students
- Satori Madrone, PhD Candidate - Sex, Diet & Desire: The Impact of Interoceptive Practice on Women's Sexual Desire
- Amber Price, PhD Candidate - Autoerotic Disordered Eating: Anorexic and Bulimic Behaviors
- Eric Schneider, PhD Candidate, MEd - Gay Love Narratives
- Estefania Simich, PhD Candidate, LCPC, CST - Sexual Citizenship of Migrant Peruvian Women in the United States
- Giovanni Trimble, PhD Candidate, MS - Sexual Orientation Discordance and the Effect of Romantic Attraction
