LAURA CARPENTER
Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania, 1999
TITLE:   Associate Professor
OFFICE:   220B Garland Hall
EMAIL:   l.carpenter@vanderbilt.edu
PHONE:   615-322-7546
CV: LauraCarpenterCV.pdf

HONORS, AWARDS, GRANTS RECEIVED

Emerging Professional, The Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality (SSSS), "recognized as one of the promising future leaders in the fields of sex research." 2007.

National Institute of Aging Postdoctoral Fellowship. Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, Department of Population and Family Health Sciences, 2001-2002.

Social Science Research Council-Sexuality Research Fellowship Program, Postdoctoral Fellowship. "The politics of Sexual Health: Female and Male Circumcision as Public Problems in the United States." 1999-2001.

Dean's Scholar, University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, 1997-1998.

Dissertation Fellowship, University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, 1997-1998.

Winnet Fellowship, Samuel P. Fels Foundation (Philadelphia, PA), 1994.

College Prize for Excellence in Sociology, Boston University. 1991.

Phi Beta Kappa, Boston University. 1991.

COURSES TAUGHT

UNDERGRADUATE:

  Gender in Society
  Gender, Sexuality, and the Body
  Race, Gender, and Health
  Womb to Tomb: The Life Course
      (first-year seminar)

GRADUATE:

  Gender, Sexuality, and Intimate Relationships
  Field Methods


RESEARCH INTERESTS

Gender
Sex and Sexuality
Health and Medicine
Aging and the Life Course
Qualitative Methods
Mass Media and Journalism

CURRENT RESEARCH PROJECTS

Gendered Sexuality Over the Life Course
The Politics of Sexual Health: Male Circumcision and Female Genital Cutting as Public Problems in the United States, Great Britain, and Canada

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

Book
2005.Virginity Lost: An Intimate Portrait of First Sexual Experiences. New York University Press.

Journal Articles
Carpenter, Laura M., Constance A. Nathanson & Young J. Kim. 2007. "Physical Women, Emotional Men: Exploring Gender and Sexual Satisfaction in Midlife." Archives of Social Research, "online first" .

Carpenter, Laura M., Constance A. Nathanson & Young J. Kim. 2006. "Sex After 40?: Gender, Ageism, and Sexual Partnering in Midlife." Journal of Aging Studies 20(2): 93-106.

Carpenter, Laura M. 2002. "Gender and the Social Construction of Virginity Loss in the Contemporary United States." Gender & Society 16(3):345-365.

Carpenter, Laura M. 2002. "Analysis of Textual Material." Chapter 16 in Handbook for Conducting Research on Human Sexuality, Michael W. Wiederman and Bernard E. Whitley, Jr., (eds.). Mahway, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Carpenter, Laura M. 2001. "The Ambiguity of 'Having Sex': The Subjective Experience of Virginity Loss in the United States." The Journal of Sex Research. 38(2):127-139.

Carpenter, Laura M. 2001. "The First Time/Das Erstes Mal: Approaches to Sexuality in U.S. and German Teen Magazines." Youth & Society. 32(3):31-61.

Carpenter, Laura M. 1998. "From Girls Into Women: Scripts for Sexuality and Romance in Seventeen Magazine, 1974-1994." The Journal of Sex Research 35(2): 158-168.

Book Chapters
Carpenter, Laura M. (forthcoming). "The Amibiguity of Sex and Virginity Loss: Insights from Feminist Research Methods" in The New Basics: Sex, Gender and Sexuality, edited by Abby L. Ferber, Kimberly Holcomb & Tre Wentling. Oxford University Press.