Kimberly Dugan

Biography

Dr. Dugan’s scholarship and teaching focuses on social movements and collective behavior, sexualities, and identity. Particulary interests include the LGBTQ+ movement, opposing anti-LGBTQ+ forces, identity work and intersectionality. She has published numerous articles and a book (The Struggle Over Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Rights, Routledge) and has presented at many professional conferences. She received her Ph.D. in Sociology from the Ohio State University and her M.A. and B.A. (sociology) from Kent State University.

Research Interests

• Social Movements - Opposing Social Movements (i.e. LGBTQ+ and the Christian Right)
• Identity and Intersectionality
• Donor- assisted families and genetic kin's social relations

Teaching Interests

• Social Movements and Collective Behavior
• LGBTQ+ Lives
• Methods of Social Research

Publications

"Gifts of LGBTQ Identity." Center for Lifelong Learning at the University of Connecticut, Dec. 2018. With Rebecca G. Harvey.

"The Civil Rights Movement: Enduring Legacies.” at the “The Long Civil Rights Movement: Unfinished Business and Enduring Legacies,” an ACES/Gilder Lehrman Center Summer Institute for School Teachers, Yale University, June, 2018.

“And, Justice For All: Exploring the Gifts of Queer and Gender Intersectionality.” Association of Humanist Sociologists, Annual Meeting, Havanna, Cuba November 2017, With Rebecca G. Harvey.

“The Three Rs: One Sociology Department's Responses to Mandates for Increasing Retention, Recruitment, and Graduation Rates.” Presented at the Eastern Sociological Society annual meetings, Boston, MA, March 2016 with Cara Bergstrom-Lynch, William Lugo, Nicholas Parsons, and Theresa Severance.

“Sister Moms and Donor Siblings.” Presentation planned for the Eastern Sociological Society Annual Meetings, New York, February 2015, with Medora Barnes.