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Distinguished Service to SSSS Award: Robin Milhausen
Distinguished Service to SSSS Award: Robin Milhausen

Robin Milhausen, PhD

Professor, Family Relations and Applied Nutrition

University of Guelph


Dr. Robin R. Milhausen is is a Full Professor in the Department of Family Relations and Applied Nutrition at the University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada. Dr. Milhausen earned her Doctor of Philosophy in Applied Health Science from Indiana University, Bloomington. Recently, she expanded her expertise by obtaining a Master of Arts in Counselling Psychology. Dr. Milhausen has an extensive publication record, with over 100 articles published in refereed journals. Her research spans topics including sexual and relationship satisfaction, sexual arousal and desire, and condom use and sexual health. She is the lead editor of the "Handbook of Sexuality-Related Measures" (4th ed.), and the a new co-author on Human Sexuality: Diversity in Contemporary America (McGraw Hill, 2025). She is a research fellow at the Rural Center for AIDS/STD Prevention and at The Kinsey Institute.  At Guelph, Dr. Milhausen has taught thousands of undergraduate students in courses on human sexuality, relationships, and health. She is a passionate mentor for undergraduate and graduate students.

Dr. Milhausen’s work in the field of human sexuality has been widely recognized. She received with the Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality (SSSS) Fellow Award based on her scholarship and its impact on the field. She received the inaugural SSSS Lester A. Kirkendall Outstanding Mentor Award, highlighting her commitment to mentoring students and fostering their academic and professional growth. Her leadership contributions to the Canadian Sex Research Forum (CSRF) earned her a Service Award from this organization. She has served as the President of CSRF, Chair and Co-Chair of the Annual Guelph Sexuality Conference, and member of the board and Co-Chair for the Society of the Scientific Study of Sexuality. She is one of four Associate Editors for the Canadian Journal of Human Sexuality and on the editorial board for numerous other journals.


Award to be Presented at the Awards Ceremony - Saturday, November 16 at 06:30 PM (PST)


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Social Justice/Public Policy Award: Tushabe wa Tushabe
Social Justice/Public Policy Award: Tushabe wa Tushabe





Tushabe wa Tushabe, PhD

Associate Professor, Center for Human Sexuality Studies

Widener University


Tushabe wa Tushabe is an associate professor in the Center for Human Sexuality Studies at Widener University. Tushabe’s research centers decolonial practices with a focus on African indigenous epistemologies, sexualities, and feminist theory. Through processes of remembering, Tushabe takes great interest in the meaning of language to undo erasures of Indigenous humanity and presence in text, narratives, songs, and stories. Tushabe has worked as a Social/Pastoral worker with HIV/AIDS homebound patients and continues to work with LGBTQA+ as a scholar, family member, friend, and an activist behind the scenes. Tushabe’s current research recovers lesbian, bisexual, gay, trans and Intersex subjectivities in family relations in Uganda as a counternarrative to Uganda’s anti-homosexuality draconian laws which erase non-heterosexual sexualities and the people who embody them from narratives of family formations and family relations. Tushabe does not use gender pronouns.


Presentation to be streamed in California Ballroom B/C - Thursday, November 14 at 05:15 PM (PST)



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Fellow of The Society: Kristen Jozkowski
Fellow of The Society: Kristen Jozkowski


Kristen N. Jozkowski, PhD

William L. Yarber Endowed Professor

Sexual Health Dept. of Applied Health Science

Senior Scientist

Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender and Reproduction

Indiana University



Kristen N. Jozkowski (she/her) is the William L. Yarber Endowed Professor in Sexual Health in the Department of Applied Health Science and a Senior Scientist with the Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction at Indiana University. Her research focuses on the ways in which people communicate and interpret sexual consent and sexual refusal, specifically, how socio-cultural and contextual factors, like gender norms and alcohol consumption, influence consent. Dr. Jozkowski’s work also focuses on abortion attitude. She has been leading the Abortion Attitudes Project—a multi-institution, mixed-methods, interdisciplinary project aimed at better understanding and measuring complexity in abortion attitudes—since 2018. Dr. Jozkowski has published over 165 peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters and on these topics and has been sought out as a national and international expert. Her work has been supported by both federal and private agencies such as the National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism and the American Psychological Foundation.

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Student Research Grant: Cyrus Manian
Student Research Grant: Cyrus Manian

Cyrus Manian, MA

PhD Candidate

Palo Alto University



Cyrus Manian (he/they) is a queer, Persian, polyamorous PhD student at Palo Alto University, based in Oakland, California. He holds a BA in Psychology from the University of Missouri-Kansas City and an MA from Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville. With over a decade of experience working in diverse mental health settings, Cyrus has supported individuals across the lifespan in both inpatient and outpatient care. Currently, he is completing his clinical training with a focus on providing integrative, culturally responsive therapy to LGBTQ+ individuals, people with substance use disorders, and other marginalized communities.

 

Cyrus also teaches psychology courses, including Queer Psychology, at City College of San Francisco, where he is passionate about creating inclusive learning environments and mentoring students. His research interests lie at the intersection of LGBTQ+ issues, diverse relationship structures, health psychology, and mental health. As the founder of the Assessing Consensually Non-Monogamous Relationship Satisfaction (ACReS) Project, Cyrus is leading a mixed-method, nationally sampled study aimed at developing a comprehensive understanding of relationship satisfaction within consensually non-monogamous (CNM) communities, with a particular focus on intersectional experiences of marginalization.

 

Through the ACReS Project, Cyrus hopes to provide new tools for researchers and clinicians to better understand and support people in CNM relationships. His work not only aims to contribute to the growing body of research on diverse relationship structures but also to advocate for greater visibility and inclusion of CNM individuals in psychological research and practice.

 

Outside of his academic and professional pursuits, Cyrus enjoys spending quality time with his partner and two dogs, engaging in video games, and preparing for his next session of Dungeons and Dragons with friends.


The research project will be presented at the 2025 SSSS Annual Conference.

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Student Research Grant: Grace Wetzel
Student Research Grant: Grace Wetzel

Grace Wetzel, MS

Doctoral Candidate in Psychology

Indiana University



Grace Wetzel, M.S., is a doctoral candidate in the Social Area of the Psychology Department at Rutgers University. Grace studies the influence of gender on women’s sexual experiences. She considers herself a feminist psychologist, and her research focuses largely on the orgasm gap for women who have sex with men, as well as the importance of including pleasure in sex education. She investigates contextual and social influences on the orgasm gap, lay beliefs about the orgasm gap, including biological beliefs, and the role of interpersonal orgasm goal pursuit in predicting women’s orgasm. Grace has been awarded the National Science Foundation’s Graduate Research Fellowship for her work on this topic. Working to close the orgasm gap for women who have sex with men has always been her passion project. Grace advocates for her message of orgasm equality to 23,000 followers on her educational Instagram page and via her appearances on various podcasts and at various events. Additionally, Grace gave a TEDx talk titled "Let's Talk about Sex: The Reality of the Sexual Pleasure Disparity" which has amassed over eight million views online. In order to inform future interventions to improve sexual outcomes for couples, she developed the current project: “Is the orgasm gap a knowledge gap? Investigating mixed-sex couples’ ability to adapt their sexual scripts to facilitate women’s orgasm.” This dyadic project aims to investigate how couples’ knowledge of women’s most reliable route(s) to orgasm informs their sexual behavior. Grace's overarching mission is to translate her research into real-world, mainstream social impact, with the goal to make sexual experiences more equitable and pleasurable for all.


Grant to be Presented at the Awards Ceremony - Saturday, November 16 at 06:30 PM (PST)


The research project will be presented at the 2025 SSSS Annual Conference.

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Bonnie & Vern L. Bullough Book Award: Amanda Swarr
Bonnie & Vern L. Bullough Book Award: Amanda Swarr

Envisioning African Intersex: Challenging Colonial and Racist Legacies in South African Medicine


In 2009, South African track star Caster Semenya became the World Champion in the 800m, and her eligibility to compete in women’s sport was immediately questioned. Over the following decade she was forced to submit to experimental medical interrogations and public scrutiny of her gender that garnered global attention. But while Semenya’s treatment is significant—and her life continues to fuel debates about who counts as a woman today—it is not isolated. Since the 1600s, travelers, scientists, and doctors have falsely claimed that “hermaphroditism” and intersex are disproportionately common among black South Africans. Envisioning African Intersex debunks their claim to explicate how contemporary intersex medicine continues to be propelled by colonial ideologies and scientific racism. In this book, histories of racialized intersex are analyzed together with collective actions by intersex South Africans that span decades. This text explores the insights of activists such as Sally Gross, the first openly intersex activist in Africa and a global pioneer of intersex legislation. It reveals the science of sex testing in sport as inherently racist and challenges the spectacularization of Semenya and other athletes from the Global South. It also celebrates African intersex activists’ strategies for inciting policy and protocol changes. Visual representations are one of the primary ways ideas about raced intersex are promoted by doctors and reclaimed by activists, so chapters each evaluates medical photographs, scientific drawings, documentary films, and social media. While conversations about queer and transgender interventions in the sexual sciences have grown in important ways, intersex theories have been largely peripheral and transnational intersex considerations have been altogether absent. This is the first book-length consideration of intersex in Africa and fills that lacuna by analyzing the importance of intersex to understanding the gendered body through the work of a range of thinkers based in the Global South. Envisioning African Intersex exposes the lies that underpin scientific presumptions of so-called “hermaphroditism” and highlights activists’ challenges to their exploitation and articulations of new decolonial visions of gender.  




Amanda Lock Swarr, PhD

Professor

Gender, Women and Sexuality Studies

University of Washington, Seattle


Amanda Lock Swarr is Professor of Gender, Women and Sexuality Studies at the University of Washington, Seattle. Her work is concerned with queer, transgender, and intersex studies, medical inequities, and feminist politics, and she has been collaborating with South African activists since 1997. She has been a MacArthur Scholar and Mellon Fellow and is the recipient of the Samuel E. Kelly Distinguished Faculty Award and the UW Distinguished Teaching Award.  Swarr is the author of Sex in Transition: Remaking Gender and Race in South Africa, which was awarded the Sylvia Rivera Prize in Transgender Studies from CLAGS. She co-edited the anthology Critical Transnational Feminist Praxis with Richa Nagar and co-edited “The Intersex Issue” of Transgender Studies Quarterly with Michelle Wolff and David A. Rubin, and her work has appeared in journals including Feminist FormationsSigns, and Feminist Studies.  Swarr’s latest book, Envisioning African Intersex: Challenging Colonial and Racist Legacies in South African Medicine, explores how histories of colonial and racism shape intersex histories, focusing on African intersex activists’ challenges to dominant representations and violence. This book was awarded the DSREI Professional Book Award and is a finalist for the African Studies Association Best Book Prize; proceeds from print sales will be donated to Intersex South Africa, and the e-book can be accessed for free via Open Access and on the Duke University Press website.


Presented at the Awards Ceremony - Saturday, November 16th at 06:30 PM PST

Meet Dr. Swarr at their Presentation and book signing - California Ballroom B/C

Saturday, November 16th at 10:30 AM PST

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Lester A. Kirkendall Outstanding Mentor Award: Amanda Gesselman
Lester A. Kirkendall Outstanding Mentor Award: Amanda Gesselman


Amanda Gesselman, PhD


Associate Research Scientist

Kinsey Institute

Indiana University


Dr. Amanda N. Gesselman is an Associate Research Scientist at The Kinsey Institute at Indiana University, where she co-manages a research lab with Dr. Justin Garcia and leads the Research Analytics and Methodology Core. Her research focuses on the role of close relationships in health and well-being across the lifespan, the impact of technology on romantic and sexual connections, and emerging trends in relational beliefs and behaviors. She holds a Ph.D. in Social Psychology and an M.S. in Developmental Psychology from the University of Florida. 

Since joining the Kinsey Institute, Dr. Gesselman has been instrumental in securing substantial funding to support her innovative research, with projects investigating technology-mediated intimacy, loneliness in vulnerable populations, and relationship dynamics in individuals with chronic health conditions. Her work has been published in high-impact journals like Journal of Sex Research and Frontiers in Public Health, and she regularly presents her findings at international conferences. 

Beyond her research, Dr. Gesselman supervises numerous doctoral students and postdoctoral research fellows in her lab, serves as Coordinator of Postdoctoral Training at The Kinsey Institute, and teaches advanced statistics at Indiana University’s School of Nursing. She has received multiple awards, including the prestigious Outstanding Theoretical Paper Award from the Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality. Her work has been widely covered in media outlets, including The New York TimesBBC, and Scientific American, as she strives to make sex and relationship science accessible beyond academia through public engagement and media outreach.

 

Award to be Presented at the Awards Ceremony - Saturday, November 16 at 06:30 PM (PST)


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Travel Grant for Early-Career Professionals from Marginalized Groups: Caitlin Laughney
Travel Grant for Early-Career Professionals from Marginalized Groups: Caitlin Laughney


Grant to be Presented at the Awards Ceremony - Saturday, November 16 at 06:30 PM (PST)


This award is funded by Taylor & Francis, publisher of SSSS's journal, Journal of Sex Research. 



Photo and bio forthcoming.

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Hugo G. Beigel Award: Shelby Astle, Meg O. Jankovich, Amber Vennum & Adam A. Rogers
Hugo G. Beigel Award: Shelby Astle, Meg O. Jankovich, Amber Vennum & Adam A. Rogers

Parent-Child Sexual Communication Frequency and Adolescent Disclosure to Mothers About Sexuality: The Moderating Role of Open Communication in a Common Fate Structural Equation Model

Journal of Sex Research Vol. 60 Issue 7 2023


Award to be Presented at the Awards Ceremony - Saturday, November 16 at 06:30 PM (PST)


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This award is funded by Taylor & Francis, publisher of SSSS's journal, Journal of Sex Research. 

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Hugo G. Beigel Award: Isabell Schuster, Paulina Tomaszewska & Barbara Krahé
Hugo G. Beigel Award: Isabell Schuster, Paulina Tomaszewska & Barbara Krahé

A Theory-Based Intervention to Reduce Risk and Vulnerability Factors of Sexual Aggression Perpetration and Victimization in German University Students

Journal of Sex Research Vol. 60 Issue 8 2023





Isabell Schuster, PhD


Isabell Schuster, PhD, is a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Education and Psycholgy at Freie Universität Berlin, Germany. Her research focuses on the development and prevention of sexual aggression among adolescents and young adults as well as on adolescent dating violence. She has collaborated on numerous international studies, examining the prevalence and risk factors of sexual aggression and adolescent dating violence, for example, in Chile, Germany, Slovenia, Switzerland, Turkey, and UK. She co-developed the KisS (Competence in Sexual Situations) intervention program to prevent sexual aggression in young adults.



Paulina Tomaszewska, PhD


Paulina Tomaszewska, Ph.D., worked as a post-doctoral researcher in the Department of Psychology at the University of Potsdam (Germany) until 2022. Her research interest includes predicting, preventing, and measuring sexual aggression victimization and perpetration, and focuses on young people. In her research she particularly examines the role of sexuality-related cognitions, such as sexual scripts as guidelines for risky and aggressive sexual behaviour. She worked on a European project that addressed youth sexual aggression (YSAV). She co-developed an online intervention program “Kiss – Competence in sexual situations” that aims to promote sexual competence and prevent sexual aggression among college students. She has been working as a psychological psychotherapist at Charité University Medicine Berlin in the field of psychosomatics since 2023.



Barbara Krahé, PhD


Award to be Presented at the Awards Ceremony - Saturday, November 16 at 06:30 PM (PST)

This award is funded by Taylor & Francis, publisher of SSSS's journal, Journal of Sex Research. 

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Student Paper Award: Maaike A.J. Noorman, Chantal den Daas & John B.F. de Wit
Student Paper Award: Maaike A.J. Noorman, Chantal den Daas & John B.F. de Wit

How Parents’ Ideals are Offset by Uncertainty and Fears: A Systematic Review of the Experiences of European Parents regarding the Sexual Education of Their Children

Journal of Sex Research, Volume 60 Issue 7 2023



Maaike Noorman, PhD


Maaike Noorman is a PhD student in the Department of Interdisciplinary Social Science: Public Health at Utrecht University. She earned her bachelor’s degree from Leiden University College, specializing in International Development and Global Public Health, and subsequently completed her master’s degree in Social Policy and Public Health at Utrecht University. During her master’s program, Maaike conducted research in South Africa, where she evaluated predictors of loss to follow-up in HIV care. This experience enhanced her understanding of the social and behavioral complexities surrounding HIV treatment.

Her PhD research focuses on promoting inclusive HIV cure development by examining the perspectives of people living with HIV and other key affected populations. Central to her work are themes of HIV cure awareness, importance, and the meanings attributed to potential cures. Through her interdisciplinary approach, Maaike bridges basic, clinical, and social sciences, fostering meaningful engagement with affected communities in HIV cure research. This integration of perspectives promotes a participatory and community-centered approach to HIV cure initiatives.

In addition to her PhD work, Maaike is passionate about sexual health promotion. She has researched parents' perspectives on sexual education in the Netherlands and is currently leading a project that analyzes online reactions and newspaper articles related to school-based sexual education. Her work in this area aims to enhance understanding of public discourse surrounding sexual health education and its impact on policy and practice, ultimately contributing to more inclusive and effective educational strategies that meet the needs of parents, schools, and children.

E-mail: m.a.j.noorman@uu.nl

Home page: https://www.uu.nl/medewerkers/MAJNoorman

ORCID iD: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9839-9766




Chantal den Daas, PhD


Dr. Chantal den Daas is an academic with over 15 years of expertise in health psychology, specializing in sexual health and infectious disease prevention. She earned a Research Master's in Social Psychology with a minor in Methodology from the University of Amsterdam in 2008, followed by her PhD from Utrecht University in 2013. Her doctoral research, focused on sexual risk decision-making, offered critical insights into how impulsive and reflective states influence decisions through attention and perception rather than altering the effects of long-term goals.

Following her PhD, Chantal undertook postdoctoral research at the National Institute of Public Health and the Environment (RIVM) in the Netherlands, working at the Centre for Infectious Disease Control. Her research centered on understanding the behavioral and decision-making processes underpinning sexually transmitted infections (STI) and HIV transmission. By investigating differences between subpopulations and different aspects of their sexual (risk) behaviours, she contributed to the knowledge bases needed for interventions reducing STI and HIV prevalence.

Currently a Senior Lecturer and the Lead of the Health Psychology Group at the University of Aberdeen, Chantal has expanded her research to encompass broader health behaviours, such as vaping and bowel cancer screening. She is committed to advancing interdisciplinary approaches to health prevention and behaviour change, with a strong focus on both fundamental and applied science, and individual decision-making and population-level interventions. Her work continues to influence public health strategies, drawing on psychological theories to drive effective behavioural interventions.

E-mail : chantal.dendaas@abdn.ac.uk

Home page: https://www.abdn.ac.uk/people/chantal.dendaas

ORCID iD: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0955-3691




John de Wit, PhD


John de Wit (MSC, PhD; he/him) is professor of Interdisciplinary Social Science: Public Health, at Utrecht University and the Utrecht University Dean for Diversity, Equality and Inclusion. John de Wit trained as a social psychologist at Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands and received his PhD in Public Health from the University of Amsterdam. As a social psychologist of health, John works inter- and transdisciplinary across the social sciences, public health and health promotion. He is passionate about promoting the health and wellbeing of socially stigmatized groups (e.g., LGBT+ people) and contribute to mainstreaming sexual health issues.

As an expert in health behavior and health behavior change, much of John’s work is related to the global HIV response and key affected populations. His current research programs in HIV prevention and sexual health promotion encompass cutting-edge social and behavioral science research into (potential) community trust in, demand for and (unintended) impacts of biomedical HIV prevention based on the use of antiretroviral drugs. He is also involved in research into the extent and correlates of various indicators of HIV-treatment adherence and failure in high income as well as high endemic country settings, with a view to optimizing treatment outcomes and epidemic responses. He is also the social science research of the Dutch research agenda to contribute to the development of an HIV cure, the next frontier in promoting the health of people affected and eliminating new infections.

Other themes in John’s work include sexual and gender-based violence, sexuality education, sexual and reproductive health and services, and the health and wellbeing of sexual orientation and gender identity diverse communities. Cross-cutting issues in John’s research include social determinants of health, the development of effective policy and intervention, empowering affected communities, and global health.

E-mail: j.dewit@uu.nl

Home page: https://www.uu.nl/staff/jdewit

ORCID iD https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5895-7935





Award to be Presented at the Awards Ceremony - Saturday, November 16 at 06:30 PM (PST)

This award is funded by Taylor & Francis, publisher of SSSS's journal, The Journal of Sex Research

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Student Paper Award: Ariel Shoikhedbrod, Natalie O. Rosen, Serena Corsini-Munt, Cheryl Harasymchuk, Emily A. Impett & Amy Muise
Student Paper Award: Ariel Shoikhedbrod, Natalie O. Rosen, Serena Corsini-Munt, Cheryl Harasymchuk, Emily A. Impett & Amy Muise

Being Responsive and Self-Determined When it Comes to Sex: How and Why Sexual Motivation is Associated with Satisfaction and Desire in Romantic Relationships

Journal of Sex Research Vol. 60 Issue 8 2023 



Ariel Shoikhedbrod


Ariel (Arik) Shoikhedbrod is a senior doctoral student in Clinical Psychology at York University. His research focuses on the reasons why people have sex from an interpersonal conceptualization and how sexual motivation can maintain desire and satisfaction in romantic relationships. In other research, he is interested in understanding how individuals negotiate and repair their relationships following interpersonal transgressions (i.e., forgiveness, revenge, apology). His research interests inform his various clinical experiences through practicums assessing and treating sexuality-related OCD, supporting individuals and couples experiencing sexual health difficulties from chronic and severe medical issues (e.g., cancer), as well as a broader range of sexual concerns in private practice. He is currently completing his accredited predoctoral internship at the Clinical Health Psychology Residency Program in the Max Rady College of Medicine in Winnipeg, Manitoba.



Natalie Rosen, PhD


Dr. Natalie Rosen (she/her) is a Professor in the Departments of Psychology and Neuroscience and Obstetrics and Gynaecology at Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. Her research focuses on understanding how couples cope with sexual dysfunction and changes to their sexual relationship. She is committed to translating her research findings into novel interventions and to sharing evidence-based information with service providers and the public. Dr. Rosen has authored over 150 peer-reviewed publications and she is the current Past-President of the Canadian Sex Research Forum. 



Serena Corsini-Munt, PhD


Dr. Serena Corsini-Munt is an Associate Professor in the School of Psychology at the University of Ottawa, and the director of the Relationship and Couple Health (ReaCH) Lab. She is also a registered Clinical and Health Psychologist. She completed her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology at the Université de Montréal in 2016, focusing her dissertation on the dyadic perspective of trauma antecedents and treatment effectiveness in couples coping with genito-pelvic pain. Dr. Corsini-Munt’s CIHR and SSHRC funded program of research focuses on clinically oriented research in chronic pelvic pain and sexual health populations, drawing from theoretical and inclusive frameworks such as the biopsychosocial model of health and self-determination theory. She and her team conduct multi-methods research, including experimental, quantitative, and qualitative designs, prioritizing dyadic methods and analyses. Overall, she and her students are dedicated to understanding couples’ experiences of sexual and health challenges, focusing on identifying factors that can ultimately contribute to relationship, sexual and psychological well-being for individuals and couples.



Cheryl Harasymchuk, PhD


Dr. Cheryl Harasymchuk is a Professor in the Department of Psychology at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada, and is the director of the Positive Activities in Intimate Relationships (PAIR) lab. Her research focuses on how couples maintain passion in intimate relationships from a social psychological perspective with an emphasis on the roles of shared leisure and the pursuit of personal growth.



Emily Impett, PhD


Dr. Emily Impett is a Professor of Psychology at the University of Toronto where she has directed the Relationships and Well-Being (RAW) Laboratory since 2010. She received a Ph.D. in Social Psychology from the University of California, Los Angeles. Her research applies social psychological theories of close relationships and sexuality to understand when “giving” to a partner—both inside and outside of the bedroom—helps versus harms relationships and well-being. Her lab is highly committed to the use of rich, ecologically valid methods, including experience sampling, longitudinal, and dyadic methods. Dr. Impett has published 184 papers in high-impact journals (e.g., Psychological BulletinProceedings of the National Academy of SciencesPsychological ScienceJournal of Personality and Social Psychology) and has received over 3 million dollars from funding agencies in the United States (e.g., National Institutes of Health) and Canada (e.g., Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, Canadian Foundation for Innovation). She has received five early career awards (e.g., from the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, International Association for Relationship Research). In 2010, Dr. Impett founded the Toronto Relationships Interest Group (TRIG), a working group of students and faculty with a shared interest in relationship science in the Greater Toronto Area. She also chaired the Social Personality Research Group (SPRG) at the University of Toronto from 2017-2019, which contains the largest number of active faculty in social-personality psychology in the world. Most of her trainees have secured faculty positions at top universities in Canada, the U.S. and Europe. Her research has been highly impactful and is regularly featured in high-impact news outlets around the world (e.g., Washington PostNew York Times). For more information about her research visit www.emilyimpett.com.




Amy Muise, PhD


Dr. Amy Muise is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology, York Research Chair in Relationships and Sexuality, and the Director of the Sexual Health and Relationships (SHaRe) lab at York University. Her research focuses on how couples can ignite and maintain sexual desire in their relationships, how sexuality is association with relationship happiness and maintenance, and how couples can more successfully navigate challenges and transitional periods. She has 130 publications to date and more than $3 million in grant funding to support her research. She is the recipient of seven early career awards including the Sage Young Scholars Award from the Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP) and the Caryl E. Rusbult Award from the Relationship Research Interest Group. Her research is also regularly cited in the media, including the Wall Street Journal and Time Magazine. For more information about her research visit www.amymuise.com or follow her lab @share.research on Instagram. 

 

Award to be Presented at the Awards Ceremony - Saturday, November 16 at 06:30 PM (PST)

This award is funded by Taylor & Francis, publisher of SSSS's journal, The Journal of Sex Research

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Justice, Equity, Diversity & Inclusion Award (paper presentation): Jay Tang, Nini Longoria, Coady Babin, Aki Gormezano, Nathan Lachowski
Justice, Equity, Diversity & Inclusion Award (paper presentation): Jay Tang, Nini Longoria, Coady Babin, Aki Gormezano, Nathan Lachowski

“It’s Remarkably White”: A Qualitative Investigation Of Racialization Within Group Sex Events In A Canadian Context


Attend this session Thursday November 14th, 3:45 in Sierra B



Photo, bio forthcoming.




This award is funded by the JEDI Committee.


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Justice, Equity, Diversity & Inclusion Award (paper presentation): Lorraine Lacroix-Williamson, Beth Molnar, Collette Ncube, Danielle Haley
Justice, Equity, Diversity & Inclusion Award (paper presentation): Lorraine Lacroix-Williamson, Beth Molnar, Collette Ncube, Danielle Haley

"One Of The Things That Was Hardest For Me, Especially As A Black Woman, Was Recognizing That I Deserve Pleasure: A Qualitative Study Examining How Structural And Social Factors Impact Black Women’s Sexuality"


Attend this session Friday, November 15th, 9:00 in Santa Fe



Photos, bios forthcoming.




This award is funded by the JEDI Committee.



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