Lab Honors

2024

Idalia Maciel awarded grant from the Polyamory Foundation for her dissertation research

Sara McClelland delivers keynote address at SPSSI

Jay Seibold  joins lab as graduate student

2023

Sarah Lapean joins lab as graduate student

Julia Smoot joins lab as graduate student

Will Beischel started as Assistant Professor at Loyola University Chicago

Tangier Davis awarded PhD and started as Organizational Data Insights and Analytics Manager at Modivcare

Leanna Papp awarded PhD and started as Assistant Professor of Population Health Sciences and a member of the Violence Against Women Faculty Cluster at the University of Central Florida

2022

Majel Baker started as Assistant Professor of Psychology at College of Saint Benedict/Saint John's University in Minnesota

Harley Dutcher awarded PhD and started as Research & Evaluation Officer at The Susan Thompson Buffett Foundation

Will Beischel awarded PhD and began a Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at Université de Sherbrooke

2021

Solangel Troncoso achieved candidacy in the Personality and Social Contexts and Women’s and Gender Studies PhD program

Leanna Papp's (w/ Monique Ward and Riley Marshall) paper, "Contributions of reality TV consumption to college women’s endorsement of the heterosexual script and acceptance of sexualized aggression," will appear in Psychology of Women Quarterly 

Leanna Papp & Sara McClelland's paper, Too common to count? 'Mild' sexual assault and aggression among U.S. college women, appeared in the Journal of Sex Research

Leanna Papp awarded the Pillsbury Graduate Research Grant by the Psychology dept.

Leanna Papp awarded the Riecker Graduate Research Fellowship by the UM Center for the Education of Women 

Leanna Papp awarded the Sexual Harassment and Gender-Based Violence Research Grant from the Women's & Gender Studies dept.

Will Beischel awarded the Psychology Summer Research Award, University of Michigan

Will Beischel awarded the Psychology Student Diversity Teaching Award, University of Michigan

Will Beischel (w/ Schudson, Hoskin, and van Anders) presented paper, “Recommendations for inclusive gender/sex demographic questions using the Gender/Sex 3x3” at the Conference of the European Survey Research Association conference

Will Beischel (w/ Gauvin, and van Anders) presented paper, “A little shiny gender breakthrough”: Community understandings of gender euphoria at the Moving Trans History Forward Conference

Will Beischel (w/ Gauvin, and van Anders) presented paper, “A little shiny gender breakthrough”: Community understandings of gender euphoria at the National LGBTQ Health Conference

Will Beischel (w/ Schudson, Hoskin, and van Anders) presented paper, “Recommendations for inclusive gender/sex demographic questions using the Gender/Sex 3x3” at the Gender Preconference, Society for Personality and Social Psychology Convention

2020

Majel Baker joins lab as a Postdoctoral fellow

Idalia Maciel joins lab and doctoral program in Personality & Social Contexts

Özge Savaş awarded PhD and started as Assistant Professor at Bennington College

Leanna Papp (w/ Kamaria Porter, Elizabeth Armstrong, and Sandy Levitsky) presented poster The conceptual morass of sexual misconduct terminology in higher education at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s Action Collaborative on Preventing Sexual Harassment Virtual Summit

Leanna Papp and Sara McClelland presented paper, "'Something small that happens a lot': 'Minor' sexual assault among college women" at the Association for Women in Psychology annual conference

Leanna Papp awarded the Dorothy McGuigan Award by the University of Michigan Women's Studies department for paper, "Too common to count? 'Minor' sexual assault and aggression in U.S. college social settings"

Leanna Papp awarded the Sexual Harassment and Gender-Based Violence award from the Women's & Gender Studies dept.

Kayla Fike's (w/ Ceballo, R. and Kennedy, T.M.) paper, The role of academic mentors for Latino/a adolescents exposed to community violence, appeared in the Journal of Community Psychology

Kayla Fike awarded Community of Scholars Fellowship

Kayla Fike awarded Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship

Kayla Fike received Honorable Mention for Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellowship

Harley Dutcher awarded 2020 Outstanding GSI Award

Harley Dutcher awarded Rackham Humanities Dissertation Fellowship from the Women's Studies Dept.

Harley Dutcher awarded the Dept of Psychology's Dissertation/Thesis Grant

Harley Dutcher selected to participate in the Sweetland Writing Center's 2020 Dissertation Writing Institute

Haley Sparks awarded the Barbara Oleshansky Memorial Award

Haley Sparks awarded the Barbara Perry Roberson Fellowship

Haley Sparks awarded the Joseph Veroff and Katherine Luke Memorial Award

Haley Sparks awarded the Rackham Graduate Student Research Grant

Haley Sparks awarded the Rackham Conference Travel Grant

Haley Sparks completed her MSW degree at the UM School of Social Work

Sara McClelland, Harley Dutcher, and Brandon Crawford's paper, In the fabric of research: Racial and gender stereotypes in survey items assessing attitudes about abortion, appeared in the Journal of Social Issues

Sara McClelland and collaborators awarded proposal development grant for The Ambivalence Project, funded by the UM Humanities Collaboratory

Solangel Troncoso awarded Rackham Graduate Student Research Grant

Will Beischel awarded the Psychology Student Diversity Service Award, Honorable Mention

Will Beischel (w/ Schudson, Hoskin, Mao, Zielinski, and van Anders) presented paper, “Translating knowledge of sexual configurations theory via instructional videos and diagrams” at the Canadian Sex Research Forum 

Will Beischel (w/ Gauvin, and van Anders) presented paper, “Sheer joy and contentment”: Community understandings of gender euphoria at the Preaching to the Choir: An International LGBTQ Psychology Conference

2019

Leanna Papp (w/ Monique Ward) presented paper, "Accepting aggression: Roles of media use and heterosexual script endorsement" at the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issuesconference

Leanna Papp, Sara McClelland, Kathryn Holland, and Lilia Cortina presented paper, "Reporting campus sexual assault and students' trust in the system" at the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues annual conference

Leanna Papp completed M.S. degree in Psychology and advanced to candidacy

Leanna Papp presented research at the Women's Studies Brown Bag Seminar, "Normalization in three studies"

Harley Dutcher and Sara McClelland's paper, Laboring to make sex “safe”: Sexual vigilance in young U.S. college women, appeared in Sex Roles

Kayla Fike awarded Society for the Study of Psychological Issues Graduate Student Travel Grant

Kayla Fike awarded Rackham Program in Public Scholarship Grant

Kayla Fike awarded Marona Graham-Bailey Grant

Sara McClelland Guest Instructor for the Annual Alumni Weekend, University of Michigan Sexual Health Certificate Program

SexGenLab discusses collaborative research with ProgressLab about our research on same-sex attraction

2018

Sarah Bell awarded PhD and started as Assistant Professor of Psychology at Dixie State University

Sarah Bell and Sara McClelland's paper When, if, and how: Young women contend with orgasmic absence, appeared in the Journal of Sex Research

Dani Carillo joins lab as a Postdoctoral fellow

Sara McClelland awarded grant: "Analysis of Measures Assessing Abortion Attitudes" (Anonymous Foundation)

Sara McClelland awarded the Class of 1923 Memorial Teaching Award from the University of Michigan

Sara McClelland awarded the Emerging Leadership Award from the American Psychological Association

Sara McClelland awarded the Distinguished Early Career Contributions in Qualitative Inquiry Award from the APA Div 5

Sara McClelland keynote speaker at Annual Psi Chi Research Symposium, Michigan School of Professional Psychology

Sara McClelland speaker at Ending Gender-Based Violence Conference; video of conference available here for UM folks, panel starts at 39:01

Harley Dutcher presented research at annual Sexpertise conference at the University of Michigan

Haley Sparks awarded the Diversity Service Award from the Department of Psychology

Haley Sparks presented paper “African American women’s subjective gender development and their sexual experiences in committed monogamous romantic relationships” at the Representation Matters: Contextualizing the Psychological Experiences of Black Women in U.S. Society Guest Lecture Series, University of Michigan

Leanna Papp awarded the Feminism & Psychology Student Presentation Award

Leanna Papp & Sara McClelland presented paper, "The Normalization of Sexualized Aggression on College Campuses," at Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues conference

Leanna Papp & Sara McClelland presented poster, "The Normalization of Sexualized Aggression on College Campuses" at Ending Gender-Based Violence Conference

Leanna Papp was awarded a University of Michigan Library Mini-Grant for project, "Experiences of Sexualized Aggression During College"

Leanna Papp presented research at the Gender and Feminist Psychology/Personality and Social Contexts Brown Bag Seminar, “'No big deal'? Contextualizing college women’s dismissals of assault”

Kayla Fike awarded Rackham Travel Grant

Kayla Fike member of Emerging Diversity Scholars Network for demonstrating a commitment to diversity research and scholarship

Özge Savaş' paper (w/ Abby Stewart) "Alternative pathways to activism: Intersections of social and personal pasts in the narratives of women’s rights activists" published in Qualitative Psychology

Ozge Savaş’ paper (w/ Benjamin Blankenship, Jennifer Frederick, and Abby Stewart) Piecing together the American voting puzzle: How voters’ personalities and judgments of issue importance mattered in the 2016 Presidential Election published in Analysis of Social Issues and Public Policy

Özge Savaş awarded the Patricia Gurin Award

2017

Sara McClelland quoted in The Washington Post about women, orgasms, and television shows

Harley Dutcher & Sara McClelland presented poster “The burden of "safe sex”: Identifying young women’s sexual safety labor” at National Women’s Studies Association conference

Harley Dutcher completed M.S. degree in Psychology and advanced to candidacy

Harley Dutcher joined the Student Advisory Board for the Psychology of Women Quarterly

Özge Savaş (w/ Abby Stewart) presented paper, “Creating affinity with immigrants: Perceptions of historical similarity and personal salience” at EASP-SPSSI Joint Meeting

Özge Savaş (w/ Abby Stewart) presented paper, “Changing attitudes about immigrants before the 2016 U.S. Election” at Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues conference

Özge Savaş (w/ Abby Stewart) presented paper, “Overcoming internalized oppression: Transnational experiences for developing a feminist praxis” at Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issuesconference

Özge Savaş awarded awarded the Nan Donald Award

Özge Savaş awarded the Barbour Scholarship

Özge Savaş' article (w/ Blankenship, B., Frederick, J., Montgomery, S., and Stewart, A. J.) Privilege and marginality: How group identification and personality predict right- and left-wing political activism was published in Analysis of Social Issues and Public Policy

2016

Sara McClelland’s research featured in The New York Times. Peggy Orenstein describes how intimate justice is central to her new book Girls & Sex:

“The framework I wanted to put on the book was this idea of ‘intimate justice,’ a phrase coined by Sara McClelland, a psychologist at the University of Michigan. She says, as we have known and discussed for years, who does the dishes in the home or vacuums the rug and picks up the laundry, those are political acts as well as personal acts. Sex can be looked at through that lens too. We need to look at who gets to engage in the sexual experience. Who gets to enjoy it? Who is the primary beneficiary? How does each partner define what’s good enough?” [From interview with Orenstein]

Sara McClelland was invited speaker at the 2016 SPSP Sexuality Pre-Conference

Sara McClelland was awarded the Mary Walsh Roth Teaching the Psychology of Women Award from the American Psychological Association (Division 35) and was nominated for the Golden Apple Award

Sara McClelland and Harley Dutcher’s encyclopedia entry on “Heterosexist Bias in Research”published in The SAGE Encyclopedia of LGBTQ Studies

Harley Dutcher presented paper, “‘If I control the situation best I can, I'm not scared of it’: Young women’s descriptions of sexual safety” at the New View Campaign Conference

Logan Casey featured in article about his work on LGBT politics and the impact of disgust

Logan Casey presented dissertation research at Eastern Michigan University

Logan Casey received Vivian Fell Sangunett Summer Fellowship, Rackham Graduate School

Logan Casey appointed as Research Analyst at the Harvard Opinion Research Program (HORP) at the T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Sarah Bell member of the Student Advisory Board for the journal Psychology of Women Quarterly

Sarah Bell awarded Women’s Studies Fellowship

Sarah Bell published paper (w/ Katherine Goldey, Amanda Posh and Sari van Anders) Defining pleasure: A focus group study of solitary and partnered sexual pleasure in queer and heterosexual women in Archives of Sexual Behavior

Katy Holland awarded 2016 SPSSI Crosby-Spendlove Travel Award for presenting research from a feminist and social justice perspective

Katy Holland awarded a UM Women’s Studies Department Fellowship

Katy Holland hired as Graduate Teaching Consultant (GTC) for CRLT

Sara McClelland and Katy Holland’s paper Toward better measurement: The role of survey marginalia in critical sexuality research published in Qualitative Psychology

Katy Holland presented “Barriers to Seeking Help for Sexual Assault on a College Campus” at SPSSI annual conference

Katy Holland’s paper (w/ Veronica Rabelo and Lilia Cortina) (Missing) Knowledge About Sexual Assault Resources: Implications for Military Mental Health published in Violence and Victims

Jen Rubin awarded Hough Research Fellowship for Ethics in Psychology

Jen Rubin awarded Barbara A. Oleshanksy Award

Jen Rubin’s book review of “Gendertrolling: How Misogyny Went Viral” published in Sex Roles

Jen Rubin’s paper (w/ David Frost and Nicole Darcangelo) “Making Meaning of Significant Events in Past Relationships: Implications for Depression Among Newly Single Individuals” published inJournal of Social and Personal Relationships

Jen Rubin presented (w/ Sara McClelland, Ozge Savas, and Sarah Bell) “Faculty attitudes about qualitative research methods in U.S. psychology graduate programs” at SPSSI annual conference

Jen Rubin presented “More than a Label: Measurement of sexual orientation among adolescents” at SSSS annual conference

Susie Robinson started MSW program at Columbia University

Angela Khoshnoud working as licensed clinical social worker in Chicago as clinical supervisor overseeing a team of community care coordinators

Luke Hassevoort graduated from Wayne State University and works at Common Ground, a non-profit mental health crisis intervention agency

Erin Dubnow entered third year as medical student at Temple School of Medicine

2015

Sara McClelland awarded Faculty Communities for Inclusive Teaching Grant, “Teaching at the Intersection of Race & Sexuality”

Sara McClelland presented “Thick desire and policy: Envisioning public support of sexualities” at the2015 American Sociological Association annual conference

Sara McClelland presented “Refusing mundane sexual injustice in feminist research,” as part of the Featured Feminist Science Symposia Series at the Association for Women in Psychology, San Francisco, CA

Susie Robinson started full-time position at Renewal House, a transitional supportive housing facility in Bronx, NY

Logan Casey published policy report coauthored with Andrew Reynolds: “Standing Out: Transgender and Gender Variant Candidates and Elected Officials Around the World” and presented about project to the British Parliament, London School of Economics, and the International LGBT Leaders Conference (see here for press coverage and information)

Katy Holland’s paper (w/ Veronica Rabelo and Lilia Cortina) Collateral damage: Military sexual trauma and help-seeking barriers published in Psychology of Violence

Katy Holland presented “Collateral Damage: Military Sexual Trauma and Help-Seeking Barriers” at American Psychological Association conference

Melissa Manley’s paper (w/ Lisa Diamond and Sari van Anders) Polyamory, monoamory, and sexual fluidity: A longitudinal study of identity and sexual trajectories published in Psychology of Sexual Orientation and Gender Diversity

Sara McClelland, Jen Rubin, Sarah Bell, and Ozge Savas collaborated on study about graduate training in qualitative methods. See here for executive summary of report submitted to the Society for Qualitative Inquiry in Psychology (SQIP)

Dr. Michelle Johns successfully defended her dissertation, “Overlooked Assets: Body Size, Body Image, and Sexual Minority Women”

Michelle Johns began a Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in the Division of Adolescent and School Health at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Harley Dutcher began the Psychology & Women’s Studies PhD program at the University of Michigan

Melissa Manley began the Clinical Psychology PhD program at Clark University

Jen Rubin awarded the Roger W. Brown Award, Excellence in sexual orientation prejudice research

Jen Rubin awarded the Barbara Perry Roberson Research Scholarship

Jen Rubin awarded the Institute for Social Research-Rackham Summer Training Award

Jen Rubin presented her research at the Gender and Feminist Psychology Brown Bag Seminar, “Navigating Sexuality Identity(s) in the Age of the App”

Sara McClelland awarded the Psychology Faculty Diversity Research Award, Outstanding Publication for the article (with Jen Rubin), “Even though it’s a small checkbox, it's a big deal:” Stresses and strains of managing sexual identity(s) on Facebook

Sara McClelland & Jen Rubin’s paper (with Jose Bauermeister) “I liked girls and I thought they were pretty:” Initial memories of same-sex attraction in young lesbian and bisexual women published in Archives of Sexual Behavior

Sara McClelland & Jen Rubin’s paper “Even though it’s a small checkbox, it's a big deal:” Stresses and strains of managing sexual identity(s) on Facebook published in Culture, Health & Sexuality

Sara McClelland & Katy Holland’s paper You, me, or her: Leaders’ perceptions of responsibility for increasing gender diversity in STEM departments published in Psychology of Women Quarterly

Sara McClelland and Katy Holland’s paper (w/ Jennifer Griggs) Quality of life and metastatic breast cancer: The role of body image, disease site, and time since diagnosis published in Quality of Life Research

Logan Casey’s paper “Emotions and the Politics of Ebola” published in PS: Political Science and Politics

Logan Casey awarded the Garth Taylor Dissertation Fellowship in Public Opinion from Center for Political Studies at ISR

Logan Casey awarded a second year on his Ford Fellowship & Scholarship

Logan Casey awarded the Equality Research Center's "Equality Knowledge Project," at Eastern Michigan University

Sara McClelland’s paper “’What do you mean when you say that you’re sexually satisfied?’ A mixed methods study” was included in the Feminism & Psychology virtual special issue Constructing Sexualities: A collection of articles published in Feminism & Psychology

2014

Sara McClelland received the Michele Alexander Early Career Award for Scholarship and Service, Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues (SPSSI)

Sara McClelland awarded the Junior Faculty Fellowship, Institute for Research on Women and Gender

Sara McClelland awarded CRLT Instructional Development Grant, “Development of a Course Assignment Using the Labadie Collection”

Angela Khoshnoud, A.M., LCSW graduated from the The University of Chicago's school of Social Service Administration

Sara McClelland and Michelle Fine’s paper, Sexuality education and desire: Still missing after all these years, re-printed in Sex Matters: The Sexuality and Society Reader, 4th Edition.

Sara McClelland and Katy Holland’s paper (with Jennifer Griggs) Vaginal dryness and beyond: The sexual health needs of women diagnosed with metastatic breast cancer published in Journal of Sex Research

Two chapters published in the Handbook of Sexuality & Psychology: one about the role of social policyand another about phenomenological research methods in sex research

Two entries published in the Encyclopedia of Critical Psychology: one on “intimate justice” and another on “adolescent sexuality”

Harley Dutcher was awarded the Women’s Studies Summer Research/Internship

Sarah Bell & Sara McClelland presented poster, “Caring Labor in Experiences of Sexual Satisfaction” at the International Academy of Sex Research Annual Conference in Dubrovnik, Croatia

Katy Holland received an Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award

Katy Holland was awarded the IRWG Research Grant and CEW Riecker Graduate Student Research Grant for her dissertation research

Michelle Johns was awarded the IRWG Community of Scholars Summer 2014

Logan Casey was awarded the Political Science department's Gerald R. Ford Fellowship and Scholarship for his dissertation research

Jen Rubin & Sara McClelland presented paper, “Small Checkbox, Big Deal: How Young Queer Women of Color Manage Sexual Identity(s) Online” at Society for Research on Adolescence in Austin, TX

Jen Rubin received Honorable Mention, Ford Fellowship, The National Academies

Susie Robinson accepted position with the AmeriCorps program AVODAH

Erin Dubnow accepted a place in Temple School of Medicine's Class of 2018

Tori Adams will begin the PhD program in Gender and Women's Studies at the University of Arizona

Ellen Stewart will begin the Masters in Adult-Gerontology Acute Care Nurse Practitioner program at the University of Michigan School of Nursing

Alex VanDerKolk was named the winner, Best Undergraduate Team (Lab Compass), 2014 UM Business Competition

Gabby Butterfield accepted position with Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains in Denver, CO

Gabby Butterfield graduated from AmeriCorps NCCC FEMA Corps in Vinton, IA

2013

Susie Robinson & Sara McClelland presented poster “’What I mean is...’ A mixed methods approach to studying sexual health” at the annual meeting of the National Women’s Studies Association, Cincinnati, OH

Katy Holland & Sara McClelland presented paper, “What Does This Question Mean? Surveys, Sexual Health, and Feminist Analysis of Quantitative Data”at the annual meeting of the National Women’s Studies Association, Cincinnati, OH

Jen Rubin & Sara McClelland presented paper, “Understanding same-sex attraction: The role of emotions, partnering, and desire” at the annual meeting of the National Women’s Studies Association, Cincinnati, OH

Jen Rubin received Honorable Mention, Ford Fellowship, The National Academies

Jen Rubin presented paper, “Crossing the digital divide: The negotiation of outness for LGB women of color” at the Eastern Psychological Association Annual Conference, New York, NY

Sara McClelland & L.E. Hunter published chapter, “Bodies that are always out of line: A closer look at ‘age appropriate sexuality’” in The Moral Panics of Sexuality

Kristen Williams accepted in PhD program at Ohio State University, Clinical Psychology

Kristen Williams hired as Study Coordinator, Department of Urology, University of California, Los Angeles

Luke Hassevort accepted in Master of Social Work program at Wayne State University