Elizabeth A. Armstrong
Elizabeth A. Armstrong received her Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley in 1998. She is currently Associate Professor of Sociology and Director of Undergraduate Studies at Indiana University. 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). With Suzanna Crage, she has also investigated how the Stonewall riots came to be viewed as the starting point of the contemporary gay movement, while earlier events in other cities have been forgotten. This paper, “Meaning and Memory: The Making of the Stonewall Myth” was published in the American Sociological Review. With Laura Hamilton and research assistants, she conducted a year of ethnographic observation on a women’s floor in a residence hall and fives waves of in-depth interviews with more than 40 residents of this floor. A paper from this project, “Sexual Assault on Campus: A Multi-level, Integrative Approach to Party Rape,” co-authored with Laura Hamilton and Brian Sweeney, was published in Social Problems. She and Hamilton are working on a book exploring the relationship between college peer culture and social inequality. Armstrong received a National Academy of Education/Spencer Postdoctoral Fellowship and was a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University.
