486 - Thematic Session. The Career Consequences of Studying Sexuality

Session Submission Type: Invited Session

Abstract

“Don’t study sex if you want a job!” This ASA theme would not be possible if that advice had not been ignored. Yet it has been ignored at a cost. The panelists discuss the career consequences of studying sexuality. Janice Irvine has surveyed sexuality scholars about experiences of discrimination in the field. Beth Schneider has studied sexuality for decades, was Special Features Editor of Sexualities for 10 years, and mentored many young sexuality scholars as they have entered the field (many of which are now tenured)! Susana Peña offers the perspective of someone who entered the field more recently, and who combines a focus on sexuality with the study of race and ethnicity. Her faculty appointment is in an Ethnic Studies department. She will consider the ways in which studying sexuality – particularly in intersection with race or class – leads scholars to find positions outside of Sociology departments.

Sub Unit

• Thematic Sessions

Session Organizer

• Elizabeth A. Armstrong, University of Michigan

Presider

• Janice M. Irvine, University of Massachusetts

Panelists

• Janice M. Irvine, University of Massachusetts

• Beth E. Schneider, University of California-Santa Barbara

• Susana Peña, Bowling Green State University