Amy Schalet
(Ph.D. University of California-Berkeley 2003; Bachelor's
Degree in Social Studies Harvard University 1992)
Sociology
W30 Machmer Hall
(413) 545-5008
schalet@soc.umass.edu

Amy Schalet is an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology and a faculty affiliate at the Center for Research on Families. Her research focuses on sexuality, culture, and the welfare state, and she has authored several publications on comparative adolescent sexuality. Her doctoral thesis examined the different constructions of adolescent sexuality and "the modern individual" in American and Dutch white middle-class families; a book based on this research will be published by the University Chicago Press. Before coming to the University of Massachusetts, Dr. Schalet held a three-year postdoctoral fellowship at the School of Medicine at the University of California-San Francisco, where she pursued the public health and policy implications of her research. Her article "Must We Fear Adolescent Sexuality?" was named Medscape General Medicine's Best Article in Women's Health in 2004 and is used as an educational tool in the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, and Australia. Dr. Schalet was a plenary speaker at the CDC 2006 National STD Prevention Conference and a keynote speaker at both the Western Canadian Conference on Sexual Health and the 2006 meetings of the National Coalition of STD Clinic Directors.

Areas of Interest:
Culture, Sexuality, Welfare States, Political Sociology, Theory and Qualitative Methods.

Current Grants:
2009-11. Ford Foundation. Advancing Sexuality Education, Health and Policy Using a New ABCD for Adolescent Sexuality.

2008-10.  Andrew Mellon Foundation.  Mutual Mentoring Initiative Grant.  With David Cort, Emily Erikson, Dani Lainer-Vos, Andrew Papachristos, Wenona Rymond-Richmond, and Melissa Wooten.

Recent Grants:
2005-08. Ford Foundation. Moving Beyond the Stalled Revolution: Building a New Language for Sexuality, Gender and Family in America.

Recent Publications:
"Subjectivity, Intimacy, and the Empowerment Paradigm of Adolescent Sexuality." Feminist Studies, forthcoming.

"Public Sociology: Working Conditions at Cal." In Introduction to Sociology, 5th ed., Anthony Giddens, Mitchell Duneier and Richard Appelbaum (eds.), New York: W. W. Norton & Company, forthcoming. With Gretchen Purser and Ofer Sharone.

"Adolescent Sexuality Viewed through Two Cultural Lenses."; In Sex, Love, and Psychology: Sexual Health, Vol. III. Moral and Cultural Foundations, J. Kuriansky (series ed.) and M. S. Tepper and Annette F. Owens (vol. eds.), Westport, CT: Praeger Publishing, 2007.

"Must We Fear Adolescent Sexuality?" Medscape General Medicine 6(4), 2004.

"Respectability and Autonomy: The Articulation and Meaning of Sexuality among the Girls in the Gang." Journal of Contemporary Ethnography 32(1):108-43, 2003. With Geoffrey Hunt and Karen Joe-Laidler.