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Sexuality Studies Career Pathway Profiles

Jaih Craddock
Jaih Craddock
Research Pathway, Class of 2012
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James Lykens
Research Pathway, Class of 2016
Cameron Michels
Cameron Michels
Research Pathway, Class of 2016
Joshua O Neal
Joshua O Neal
Community-Based Pathway, Class of 2013

Sexuality Studies Graduate Student Thesis Titles throughout the Years

  • Acosta, Anthony

    • Examining transgender men's experiences of community membership in Bay Area queer communities

  • Afra, Hana
    • Opening up, finding support: students' and teachers' LGBQ disclosures

  • Alvarez, Rebecca
    • Clinical research trials and the treatment of hypoactive sexual desire disorder

  • Amato, Brianne
    • Sex after rape: positive outcome in women's post-rape healing processes

  • Anand, Praney
  • Andre, Amy
    • All the words are mine: How women make connections between sexual orientations and sexual experiences with female and male partners.

  • Asbill, D. Lacy
    • Revealing bodies: Fat burlesque and pleasurable subjectivity

  • Avila, Allan
    • Cultural reproduction: Child and adolescent pregnancy in rural Guatemala

  • Darcangelo, Nicole

    • Digital storytelling: exploring youth narratives of gender and sexuality

  • Darling, Jocelyn
    • Beyond just bodies: exploring the identity negotiation and community integration of female partners of trans men

  • Davies, Taylor Ann 
    • Comprehending comprehensive sex education: legislative framing of students, sex & sexuality

  • Decarie, Maryline
    • Threatening Disaster, Promising Salvation. An Analysis of Discourses in Abstinence-Only Sex Education.

      • Publ/date: 2005
      • Call# AS36 2005 HMSX .D43
  • Díaz, Michael
    • Malleable machismo : exploring friendships between straight Latino men and gay men

  • Diener, Ashley
  • Dorsett, Betsy
    • Towards a radical theory of aging: interections of old age, disability and queerness

  • Dunckel, Kaylee Margeret 
    • Constructions of female bisexuality in pornographic film: the 1970s to the 2000s

  • Garcia, Richard

    • Exploring sex, risk, and pleasure among gay and queer trans men

  • Gil, Francisco
    • Paths to care among midlife and older gay men and lesbians

      • Imprint: [San Francisco, California] : [San Francisco State University], 2013
      • Call# AS36 2013 HMSX .G55
  • Gonzalez, Christine
    • Sexuality education, Latinx zines, and Anzaldúan theories of conocimiento

  • Gould, Wren Ariel
    • Blond bombshells and fierce revolutionaries: Race-based normativities within transgender communities 

      • Publ/date: 2014
  • Greaves, Joseph
    • By the power vested: same-sex marriage and the protection of human dignity

  • Guse, Kylene
    • Sexual moral politics in South Dakota : young women "in the middle"

  • Gullickson, Nicolette
    • Effective legislation? a quantitative analysis of state-level gender identity nondiscrimination laws

  • Gutierrez-Mock, Luis
    • MixT : transgender people assigned female at birth with mixed heritages

  • Jimenez, Alicia

  • Johnson, Calli
    • The queer experience of self-injury: a phenomenological approach to cutting

  • Jones, Justin 
    • Health discrimination, public health and gay and lesbian young adults

  • MacFife, Bex 

    • The not-so-typical patience: gynecological teaching associates and the struggle to queer medicine

  • Madriles, Crystal
  • Marsh, Carolyn
    • Sex educators re-imaging relationships with youth: Defensive and liberatory responses to stigma

      • Imprint: [San Francisco, California] : [San Francisco State University], 2013
      • Call# AS36 2013 HMSX .M37
  • Martinez, Erik
    • The elephant in the classroom: Sexual diversity and public education

  • Marzullo, Michele
    • Structures to empowerment: Case study of a gay-straight alliance high school club.

  • McDermott, Roe
    • We are not vessels : Irish women's experiences of abortion

  • McNamara, Michael 
    • Condom-free pornography and its effects on viewers' sexual desires and behaviors

      • Imprint: [San Francisco, California] : [san Francisco State University], 2013
      • Call# AS36 2013 HMSX .M423
  • McReynolds, Jaih
    • Resiliency in HIV-Positive black women

      • Imprint: [San Francisco, California] : [San Francisco State University], 2012
      • Call# AS36 2012 HMSX .M37
  • Megathlin, David
    • The Friendships of Sexual Minority Men: Studies in Iceland and Finland.

  • Mendoza, Tiffany Marie 
    • The tie that binds us together: queer Filipina/x Americans, kinship, and survival

  • Michels, Cameron
    • Hypersexuality, misogyny, and possibility in women's rugby

  • Millar, Laura Marie
  • Mills, Robin Devonne
    • They didn't tell us that : Black women's sexuality education in the 1920s-1940s

  • Millspaugh, Andrew 
    • Bay Area Two-Spirits : a historical ethnography of Bay Area Two-Spirit community organizations

      • Imprint: [San Francisco, California] : [San Francisco State University], 2013
      • Call# AS36 2013 HMSX .M55
  • Mohr, John
    • The bisexual art project: building community through visual media

  • Morin, Steffan Douglas
  • Muñiz-Mella, Iman
    • Portraits of everyday rape and resistance in Dominican Republic

      • Imprint: [San Francisco, California] : [San Francisco State University], 2014
      • Call# AS36 2014 HMSX .M86
  • Parra, Michelle 

    • Latina Women Navigate the Benefits and Harms of a College Education

  • Perrine, Patrick
    • A Meta-Analysis of Homophobia and Heterosexism in the High School Environment.

  • Peterson, Casey
    • Effects of sexuality education among college freshmen at San Francisco State University

  • Petrillo, Jessica
    • Sexuality policies in psychiatric residential treatment centers: recommendations for recovery oriented services

  • Phan, Vickie
    • Silent minority influences on Asian-American women's HIV testing, attitudes, and concerns

  • Picazo, Angelica Maria
    • Shame, pleasure, and empowerment : a critical analysis of female masturbation on YouTube.

  • Tinga, Arlene 

    • Sex, Sexuality and autism

      • Imprint: [San Francisco, California] : [San Francisco State University], 2013
      • Call# AS36 2013 HMSX .T56
  • Tokheim, Jake
    • When the invisible become visible: how asexuality is represented in popular culture

  • Toquinto, Signy
    • Reproduction and the dead-already : street-based sex work and the experience of pregnancy

      • Imprint: [San Francisco, California] : [San Francisco State University], 2014
      • Call# AS36 2014 HMSX .T67
  • Torres, Vanessa
    • Latina sexual identity in early adulthood: negotiating identity within the home and beyond

      • Imprint: [San Francisco, California] : [San Francisco State University], 2013
      • Call# AS36 2013 HMSX .T67
  • Trace, Brett
    • The effects of queerness on a student's relationship with their alma mater

  • Truesdell, Elizabeth
  • Xavier-Brier, Marik

    • Cruising in cyberspace: an exploration of gay cultures in Second Life

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  • Bannister, Christian

    • Prison reform and the male body : the erasure of consent

  • Barrington, Cassidy
    • Shifts in LGBT organizing at San Francisco State University from 1970-2013

      • Imprint: [San Francisco, California] : [San Francisco State University], 2014
      • Call# AS36 2014 HMSX .B37
  • Barron, Justin
    • Deserts, oases, and elsewhere: radical LGBT/queer resistance in Palestine and Israel

  • Beougher, Sean
    • I haven't really thought of it: Whiteness in interracial gay male relationships

  • Berteau, Lorree
    • Female disembodiment : condom use and sexual pleasure

      • Imprint: [San Francisco, California] : [San Francisco State University], 2013
      • Call# AS36 2013 HMSX .B47
  • Bloom, Kendra
    • Working it out : young people negotiate sexual authenticity

  • Boese, Justin
    • Our campus, our lives : an assessment of campus climate for LGBTQ+ students at San Francisco State University

  • Bonem, Lathem
    • Gynecological Health Care and Treatment Among Transgender people (assigned "female" at birth) in the San Francisco Bay Area.

  • Boyd, Erik
  • Boylan, Elizabeth
    • My family or my country: same-sex binational partners in the United States

      • Imprint: [San Francisco, Califronia] : [San Francisco State University], 2012
      • Call# AS36 2012 HMSX .B69
  • Boyle, Meaghan
    • It's my party, I'll cum if I want to : exploring female masturbation

      • Imprint: [San Francisco, California] : [San Francisco State University], 2014
      • Call# AS36 2014 HMSX .B69
  • Bricker, Kristen Marie
    • "Condoms and Consent!" Knowledge, efficacy, and positivity in a sexual health program

  • Brooks, Durryle
    • A discourse analysis of the construction of black men's identity within academic journals

  • Brown, William III
    • Double nigrescence : toward a comprehensive model for homosexual African American men's racial identity resilience

  • Buchheit, Christine
    • The relationship between sexual identity and behavior: categorical, continuous, and dimensional perspectives

      • Imprint: [San Francisco, California] : [San Francisco State University], 2012
      • Call# AS36 2012 HMSX .B83
  • Edmonds, Shaun

    • Stigma, physical activity, and community identification in the bear community

      • Imprint: [San Francisco, California] : [San Francisco State University], 2012
      • Call# AS36 2012 HMSX .E36
  • Eno, Elizabeth
    • Femme identities and community negotiations : as femme as she wants to be

  • Haner, Shawna

    • Online, acquaintance, and novel situation dating : an analysis of risk

      • Imprint: [San Francisco, California] : [San Francisco State Univesity], 2013
      • Call# AS36 2013 HMSX .H36
  • Hentz, Kathleen
    • Participatory engagement and HIV prevention strategies

  • Herman, Clarissa
    • Sex ed-online—the developer's endeavor to create safe space

  • Henry, Rachel
    • "Two sides of a coin": nuances of maternal identity for lesbian mothers

  • Hertzberg, Scott Warren
  • Hirschman, Celeste
  • Hoffman, Amanda Lynn
    • "I'm gay, for Jamie": heterosexual/straight-identified men express desire to have sex with men

  • Hoh, Jessica
    • Queer women, media violence, and heteronormativity

      • Imprint: [San Francisco, California] : [San Francisco State University], 2014
      • Call# AS36 2014 HMSX .H64
  • Hoppe, Trevor
    • Being gay post-HAART : young HIV-negative gay men negotiating identity, desire, and sexuality

  • Howard, Rachel
    • Towards a history of inclusion : pre-stonewall queer youth activism in San Francisco

  • Hubbard, Stephanie
    • HIV positive youth : negotiating sexual experiences and romantic relationships : an exploratory study

  • Hurtado, Alejandro
  • Kanna, Stephanie

    • The consequencse [sic] of "everybody's doing it" : adolescent sexualty portrayed in the media

  • Khalili, David
    • Title Intersecting identity conflict and sexual silence among Middle Eastern lesbian, gay, bisexual and queer individuals: a qualitative study

  • Killingsworth, Lexus
    • Queer black women in film: alternative historical formations

  • Knowlton, Sarah
    • Sexual health and sexuality content in medical school curriculum

  • Kolber, Jesse
    • Domian-specific stigma consciousness: Race, gender, and sexual orientation

      • Imprint: [San Francisco, California] : [San Francisco State University], 2014
      • Call# AS36 2014 HMSX .K65
  • Kuntzman, Ruth
    • Creating inclusive classrooms: assessing a gender and sexuality workshop for k-12 educators

      • Imprint: [San Francisco, Califronia] : [San Francisco State University], 2012
      • Call# AS36 2012 HMSX .K86
  • Newton, Nicolas 

    • Transgressive and Complicit: Gay Men Performing Femininity

  • Nguyen, Lan Thi Thu
    • Sexual Behavior and Contraceptive Use Among Unmarried Women in Hanoi, Vietnam: A Qualitative Study.

  • Nguyen, Thi Quynh-Anh
    • Love in the city : sexual coercion among young, single female migrant workers in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

  • Noel, Melita
    • The Trouble with Polyamory: Problems with Race and Class.

  • Nordmarken, Sunny
    • Polyamory and alternative discourses of love / by Sunny Marie Nordmarken.

  • Nybakk, Siri
    • "Talking through the ball gag" : women navigating empowerment and vulnerability in the pursuit of sexual pleasure

  • Ramsey, Jennifer

    • Menstruation education : critical reading of children's books teaching about puberty

  • Rehor, Jennifer
  • Rubin, Jennifer Donna
    • Crossing the digital divide: cyberculture spaces for adolescent queer women of color

  • Ruelos, Spencer Taylor Berdiago 
    • #Everyonegames: Exploring Queer Gamer Identity and Community

  • Valdez, Desiree 

    • "So brave" : a study of women and alternative birth choices in the United States / by Desiree Christine Valdez.

  • Vallin, Lisa
    • Swedish and American youth their thoughts and perceptions surrounding sexual literacy.

  • Vielehr, Peter
    • The Salience of HIV-Positive identify for young gay men living with HIV

  • Young, Danielle

    • "I'm less of a person" : young women, virginity pledges & sexual choices.

  • Campbell, Walter

    • Perspectives on barebacking among gay men and prevention provides in San Francisco

  • Carroll, Julianne Margaret
    • Sex workers your voice counts: sex work, stigma and community

      • Imprint: [San Francisco, California] : [San Francisco State University], 2012
      • Call# AS36 2012 HMSX .C37
  • Casey, Aine
    • The effects of chronic illness on identity among queer women

  • Castellanos, Santiago
  • Cavaliero, Jennifer
    • The occurrence of unconventional sexual behavior of women

  • Clark, Arial
    • The invisible polyamorists; people of color and polyamory in Oakland, CA

      • Imprint: [San Francisco, California] : [San Francisco State University], 2012
      • Call# AS36 2012 HMSX .C537
  • Clark, Jennifer
    • Intimate stories : young women's exploration of sexual selves amid discreoant cultural scripts

      • Imprint: [San Francisco, California] : [San Francisco State University], 2012
      • Call# AS36 2012 HMSX .C5373
  • Cook, Conner
    • Bodies of knowledge: transexual men's experience of medical discourse

      • Publ/date: 2010
      • AS36 2015 HMSX .C67
  • Coop, Marina
    • #dontburythegays : spectators' responses to queer women representation on television

  • Cordasco, Melinda
    • Courts' response to rape victims - it's all for show

  • Cornwell, Stephanie
    • And you belong" : queer hip-hop and identity negotiation among queer young women

  • Crowder, Ryan
    • Incomplete acceptance : qualitative perspectives on homophobia and heterosexism.

  • Fischer, Jessica

    • I say, they say, we say: sexual lexicon commonalities and dissimilarities

  • Fisher, Christopher M
    • Same-sex attracted male youth and abstinence-only sexuality education

  • Fisher, Stephanie
    • Teens, sex, and money: interviews with commercially sexually exploited children

      • Imprint: [San Francisco, California] : [San Francisco State University], 2012

  • Forrester, Catherine 
    • Stigma, satisfaction and bisexual identity in the online dating environment

  • Fradet, Philippe
    • Fat young adults of color on sex, the internet and acceptance

      • Imprint: [San Francisco, California] : [San Francisco State University], 2014

  • Franges, Elizaebeth Ashley
    • Raging hegemony: Boy's sexual-self froation amid restricitve social contructs of sexuality

      • Imprint: [San Francisco, California] : [San Francisco State University], 2013

  • Freeman, Anthony
    • Cultivating community : content analysis of Frank Ocean's coming out and ensuing commentary 

  • Ibarra, Jazmin Victoria 

    • Salsa dancing: exploring ethnic and gender performances in heteronormative and queer spaces

  • Iñiguez, James Rouse
  • Itakura, Kyohei
    • Fetishizing whiteness: liberation, complicity, and dusillusionment in the Gaisen's lives

  • La, Cuong

    • How virginity enhances masculinity: An exploratory study in Hanoi, Vietnam.

  • Lamstein, Joanna 
    • Not Safe for Women: Asserting Control over Trauma through Fan Fiction

  • Leach, Carolyn 
    • Engendering support: transgender youth's interpretations 

  • Leung, Courtney
    • Centering the margins: exploring women of color participation in the SlutWalk movement

  • Lerner, Nava
    • Positive sexuality education benefits young adolescent girls

  • Long, Margarita
  • Lutnick, Alexandra
  • Lykens, James
  • O'Brien, Nathan Patrick

    • "You're really cute for a black guy" - a mixed methods approach to sexual racism on gay dating applications

  • Oliker, Savannah
    • Women's navigation of bisexual identity within monogamous, same-sex partnerships

      • Imprint: [San Francisco, California] : [San Francisco State University], 2014
      • Call# AS36 2014 HMSX .O45
  • Olsen, Jennifer
    • The missing discourse of female masturbation

      • Imprint: [San Francisco, California] : [San Francisco State University], 2012
      • Call# AS36 2012 HMSX .O47
  • O'Neal, Joshua
    • Condoms, pleasure & policy : gay men explore condom fit and access issues

      • Imprint: [San Francisco, California] : [San Francisco State University], 2013
      • Call# AS36 2013 HMSX .O54
  • O'Quinn, Jamie
    • The limits of evidence : queerness in progressive visions of sexuality education

  • Sako, Yuko

    • Pride and prejudice: Japanese women in U.S. base culture and blackness

      • Imprint: [San Francisco, California] : [San Francisco State University], 2014
      • Call# AS36 2014 HMSX .S35
  • Salazar, Jillian Crystal 
  • Schellenbech, Avry Renay
    • Changing the Conversation: Implementing a Body Positive Intervention to Reduce Fat Stigma

  • Schlabach, Jeffrey 
    • Cruising on the Internet: A Contemporary Analysis of Men in Public Restrooms.

  • Scoggin, Kathleen
    • Development of the Multidimensional Sexual Esteem Scale (MDSES)

  • Scott, Marguerite
    • Not a San Francisco unicorn : visibility and resistance in America's "gay capital"

  • Seifert, Sydney
    • Beyond risk : the evaded curriculum in sexuality education for homeless and marginally housed young women

  • Shafer, Elizabeth
    • Beyond heterosexuality : sexual subjectivity, personal attitudes, and partner negotiations

  • Sinclair-Palm, Julia
    • Feeling in the margins: holding stable and fluid genders in transgender studies

  • Skoor, Rebekah
    • If She is Mom, Then Who Am I?: Identity Formation and Role Negotiation of Non-Biological Lesbian Mothers.

  • Small, Jamie
    • Imperial injustices : representations of "sexual slavery" in the New York Times, 1989-2005

  • Smith, Ebony Treneice
    • "My mama didn't do it" : young black women and sexual knowledge

  • Smith, Helen
    • Mixed race/ethnic lesbian couples discuss donor insemination (DI)

  • Smith, Meghan
    • Tennessee's gateway sexual activity act: hinging success on conformity

  • Sotiriadis, Alexandra
    • Out of the box: exploring adolescent questions and concerns in sex education

  • Stevens, Bethany
  • Stief, Matthew 
    • Agency in sexual orientation research : furthering the integrative paradigm

  • Sugaya, Akiko
  • Suniewick, Ethan
    • The family transition : examining the experiences of parents of transgender people

  • Sydnor, James
    • Queer Virality

      • Imprint: [San Francisco, California] : [San Francisco State University], 2014
      • Call# AS36 2014 HMSX .S93
  • Wardfield, Chris Anastasia 

    • Gender consciousness and gender identity centrality in transgender and cisgender individuals

  • Weissman, Abigial 
  • Wieden, Jenna
    • Masculinity script negotiations and attitudes toward male-resceptive anal play in straight males

  • Weinstein, Leah
  • Willis, Solana 
    • Queer in the Final Frontier: Critiquing Neoliberal Politics in Star Trek: TNG

  • Woleslagle, Brandee
    • Love and relationships in MMORPGs : commitment in cyberspace

  • Zimbardo, Adam

  • Zolala-Tovar, Virginia
  • Zuckerman, Mallory Jordan 
  • Zylbergold, Bonnie
    • Heteroflexibility in North American Television and Film.