Elizabeth
A. Armstrong received her Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley in
1998. She is currently Assistant Professor and incoming Director of
Undergraduate Studies. Her research interests include sexuality, gender, social
movements, sociology of culture, and higher education. She is author of
Forging Gay Identities: Organizing Sexuality in San Francisco, 1950-1994
(Chicago 2002). More recently, her work on the American gay movement has turned
toward exploring the construction of collective memory. A paper on this topic,
“Meaning and Memory: The Making of the Stonewall Myth,” co-authored with Suzanna
M. Crage, is forthcoming in the American Sociological Review. Other
research at the intersection of culture and sexuality includes a paper with
Martin S. Weinberg on the use of culture in the interpretation of sexual images
(forthcoming in Sociological Perspectives). She is also investigating the
sexual cultures of American colleges and universities. With collaborators, she
conducted a year of ethnography on a women’s floor in a residence hall and two
waves of in-depth interviews with more than 40 residents of this floor. A first
paper from this project, “Sexual Assault on Campus: A Multi-level, Integrative
Approach to Party Rape,” co-authored with Laura Hamilton and Brian Sweeney, is
forthcoming in Social Problems.
Elizabeth
A. Armstrong received her Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley in
1998. She is currently Assistant Professor and incoming Director of
Undergraduate Studies. Her research interests include sexuality, gender, social
movements, sociology of culture, and higher education. She is author of
Forging Gay Identities: Organizing Sexuality in San Francisco, 1950-1994
(Chicago 2002). More recently, her work on the American gay movement has turned
toward exploring the construction of collective memory. A paper on this topic,
“Meaning and Memory: The Making of the Stonewall Myth,” co-authored with Suzanna
M. Crage, is forthcoming in the American Sociological Review. Other
research at the intersection of culture and sexuality includes a paper with
Martin S. Weinberg on the use of culture in the interpretation of sexual images
(forthcoming in Sociological Perspectives). She is also investigating the
sexual cultures of American colleges and universities. With collaborators, she
conducted a year of ethnography on a women’s floor in a residence hall and two
waves of in-depth interviews with more than 40 residents of this floor. A first
paper from this project, “Sexual Assault on Campus: A Multi-level, Integrative
Approach to Party Rape,” co-authored with Laura Hamilton and Brian Sweeney, is
forthcoming in Social Problems.