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Amy Schalet |
Amy Schalet is an assistant professor of sociology at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She received her Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of California, Berkeley and a Bachelor's degree in Social Studies from Harvard University. Dr. Schalet's research has focused on sexuality and culture and she has authored several publications on comparative adolescent sexuality. Her book, Raging Hormones, Regulated Love, to be published by the University of Chicago Press, examines approaches to adolescent sexuality in American and Dutch middle-class families. Prior to 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 on adolescent sexual health. Dr. Schalet has given plenary addresses at several public health conferences, including the CDC Conference on STD-Prevention. She was recently awarded a grant by the Ford Foundation entitled, "Advancing Sexuality Education, Health and Policy Using a New ABCD for Adolescent Sexuality" which will expand previous work with physicians to educators, administrators, and school-based nurses.
Areas of Expertise
Culture, Sexuality, the Welfare State, Theory and Qualitative Methods
Recent Publications
"Subjectivity, Intimacy, and the Empowerment Paradigm of Adolescent Sexuality: The Unexplored Room." Feminist Studies 35 (1), 2009.
“Adolescent Sexuality Viewed Through Two Cultural Lenses.” In J. Kuriansky (Series Ed.). M. S. Tepper & Annette F. Owens (Vol. Eds.). Sex, Love, and Psychology: Sexual health, Vol. III. Moral and Cultural Foundations. Westport, CT, Praeger Publishing, 2007.
“Must We Fear Adolescent Sexuality? Medscape General Medicine 6 (4), 2004
Grant
Ford Foundation: “Moving Beyond the Stalled Revolution: Building a New Language for Sexuality, Gender and Family in America,” 2005-2008.
