Associate Professor of Psychology & Women's Studies
About
Additional Research Interests: Qualitative Methods
Sara McClelland is Associate Professor at University of Michigan in the Departments of Women’s Studies and Psychology. Her research program focuses on studies of the intimate imagination and the expectations individuals develop for what they -- and others -- deserve to feel, experience, and avoid in their intimate lives. Current research involves assessments of U.S. abortion attitudes with a focus on the role of negative racial and gender stereotypes on attitudes towards abortion. Other ongoing research includes the effects of abstinence-only-until-marriage sex education on young adults, and studies of women's sexual well-being across the lifespan. She received her PhD in Psychology (2009), was a postdoctoral scholar in the Michigan Society of Fellows (2009-2012), and has received the Class of 1923 Memorial Teaching Award, the Distinguished Early Career Contributions in Qualitative Inquiry Award (APA Div 5), the Mary Walsh Roth Teaching the Psychology of Women Award (APA Div 35) and the Michele Alexander Early Career Award for Scholarship and Service (APA Div 9).
More information about her research can be found at: ProgressLab.info.
Area
- Personality & Social Contexts
- Joint Program in Women Studies and Psychology
Field(s) of Study
- feminist research methods
- gender/sexuality
- critical psychology
- adolescence
- social justice
