Team

Leadership

Director
Christopher “Kitt” Carpenter, PhD
(he / him / his)

• E. Bronson Ingram Chair and Professor of Economics
• Director of Public Policy Studies
• Affiliated Faculty in Health Policy at Vanderbilt University Medical Center; the Vanderbilt Law School; Leadership, Policy, and Organizations; Medicine, Health, and Society; and Gender and Sexuality Studies

Associate Director
Kirsty Clark, PhD, MPH
(she / her / hers)

• Assistant Professor of Medicine, Health, and Society; Public Policy Studies; and Psychology and Human Development

Associate Director
Gilbert Gonzales, PhD, MHS
(he / him / his)

• Assistant Professor of Medicine, Health, and Society
• Affiliated Faculty of Health Policy at Vanderbilt University Medical Center and Public Policy Studies

Associate Director
Tara McKay, PhD
(she / her / hers)

• Assistant Professor of Medicine, Health, and Society
• Affiliated Faculty in Sociology; Health Policy at Vanderbilt University Medical Center; and the Vanderbilt Institute for Global Health

Core Faculty

Executive Committee Member
Ellen Armour, PhD
(she / her / hers)

• E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Chair in Feminist Theology
• Associate Dean for Academic Affairs
• Associate Professor of Feminist Theology
• Director of the Carpenter Program in Religion, Gender, and Sexuality

Stephanie A. Budwey, MSM, ThD
(she / her / hers)

• Luce Dean’s Faculty Fellow Assistant Assistant Professor in the History and Practice of Christian Worship and the Arts
• Director of the Religion in the Arts and Contemporary Culture Program

Katherine Crawford, PhD
(she / her / hers)

• Cornelius Vanderbilt Professor of History
• Professor of Gender and Sexuality Studies
• Chair of Gender and Sexuality Studies

Marcus Dillender, PhD
(he / him / his)

• Assistant Professor of Medicine, Health, and Society and Economics

Rachel Donnelly, PhD
(she / her / hers)

• Assistant Professor of Sociology

Cindy Kam, PhD
(she / her / hers)

• William R. Kenan, Jr. Chair and Professor of Political Science
• Director of the Research on Individuals, Politics, & Society Lab
• Affiliated Faculty of Psychology and Human Development

Luis Leyva, PhD
(he / him / his)

• Assistant Professor of Mathematics Education
• Affiliated Faculty of Gender and Sexuality Studies

Matthew Shaw, EdD, EdM, JD
(he / him / his)

• Assistant Professor of Public Policy & Education and Law

Campus Partners & Community Organizations

We have strong relationships with the following campus partners and community organizations which engage LGBTQ communities, enhance the design and conduct of research, share findings, and translate research to policy recommendations.

Office of LGBTQI Life

Vanderbilt University

Program for LGBTQ Health

Vanderbilt University Medical Center

E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Program in Religion, Gender and Sexuality

Vanderbilt Divinity School

Tennessee Equality Project

LGBTQ Caucus

Metropolitan Council of Nashville and Davidson County