Research/Faculty

Selected Publications

S.J. Dodd, MSW, Ph.D (she/they) - Founding Director

Human sexuality, practice-based research in program, evaluation, LGBT policy and practice issues, social welfare policy, social work ethics

Dodd, S.J. (2020). Sex-Positive Social Work. New York: Columbia University Press.

Dodd, S.J. (In Press, expected July 2021). The Routledge International Handbook for Social Work and Sexualities. London: Routledge.

Shelton, J & Dodd, S.J. (2021). Gender Binaries. In the SAGE Encyclopedia of Trans Studies. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.

Dodd, S.J. & Katz, C (2020) Sex Positive Social Work Education: Integrating Content into HBSE Courses and Beyond, Journal of Teaching in Social Work, 40:1, 48-57

10.1080/08841233.2019.1695708

Dodd, S.J. & Shelton, J. (In Press, expected July 2021) Combatting cisnormativity in social work education, research, and practice. In S.J. Dodd (Ed.) The Routledge International Handbook of Social Work and Sexualities. London: Routledge.

Dunleavy, M. & Dodd, S.J. (In Press, expected June 2021) Sex-Positive Engagement of Transgender and NonBinary Young People. In G. Mallon & J. Shelton (Eds). Social Work Practice with Trangender Youth.

Shelton, J. & Dodd, S.J. (In Press). Binary thinking and the limiting of human potential. Public Integrity.

Shelton, J, Kroehle, K., Clark, E., Seelman, K. & Dodd, S.J. (In Press). Digital technologies and the Violent Surveillance of Nonbinary Gender. Journal of Gender Based Violence.

Kroehle, K., Shelton, J., Clarke, E., & Seelman, K. (2020). Mainstreaming dissidence: Examining binary gender among social work’s grand challenges. Social Work.

Shelton, J., Kroehle, K.,* & Andia, M.* (2019). The trans person is not the problem: Brave spaces and structural competence as educative tools for trans justice in social work. Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare, 46(4).

Jama Shelton & SJ Dodd (2019) Teaching Note—Beyond the Binary: Addressing Cisnormativity in the Social Work Classroom, Journal of Social Work Education

Wagaman, A., Shelton, J., Carter, R., Stewart, K., & Cavaliere, S.J. (2019). “I’m totally transariffic”: Exploring resilience among transgender and gender expansive youth in community-based contexts. Child and Youth Services

Shelton, J., DeChants, J., Bender, K., Hsu, H., Narendorf, S., Ferguson, K., Petering, R., Barman-Adhikari, A., & Santa Maria, D. (2018). Homelessness and housing experiences among LGBTQ youth and young adults: An intersectional examination across seven U.S. cities. Cityscape, 20(3), 9-33.

Shelton, J., Wagaman, A., Small, L., & Abramovich, A. (2017). “I’m more driven now”: Resilience and resistance among transgender and gender expansive youth experiencing homelessness. Today’s Transgender Youth: Health, Well-being, and Opportunities for Resilience, special issue of International Journal of Transgenderism, 19(2), 144-157.

Wagaman, A., Shelton, J., & Carter, R. (2018). Queering the social work classroom: Strategies for increasing inclusion of LGBTQ people and experiences. Journal of Teaching in Social Work, 38(2), 1-17.

Shelton, J. (2015). Transgender youth homelessness: Understanding programmatic barriers through the lens of cisgenderism. Children and Youth Services Review, 59, 10-18.

Yoder, J., Brown, A., Grady, M. Dillard, R., and Kennedy, N. (2020). Positive caregiving styles attenuating effects of cumulative trauma among youth who commit sexual crimes. International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology.

Yoder, J., Grady, M.D., Brown. A., and Dillard, R. (2020). Criminogenic needs as intervening mechanisms in the relation between insecure attachment and youth sexual violence. Sexual Abuse, 32(3), 247-272.

Brown. A. and Grady, M.D. (2019). Helplessness and hopelessness in adolescents who commit sexual and non-sexual crimes. Victims and Offenders: An International Journal of Evidenced-Based Research, Policy, and Practice, 14(1), 15-31.

Brown. A. (2019). Using latent class analysis to explore subtypes of youth who have committed sexual offenses. Youth, Violence, and Juvenile Justice, 7(4), 413-430.

Grady, M.D., Yoder, J., and Brown. A. (2018). Childhood maltreatment experiences, attachment, sexual offending: Testing a theory. Journal of Interpersonal Violence.

Tan, K., Brown, A., and Leibowitz, G. (2018). School, social-communicative, and academic challenges among delinquents and juvenile sexual offenders. Child and Adolescent Social Work Journal. (36)6, 577-585.

Sorrentino, R., Brown, A., Berard. B., and Peretti, K. (2018). Sex offenders: General information and treatment. Psychiatric Annals, 48(2) 120-128.

Brown, A. (2016). Masculinity is not pathology: An exploration of masculinity among juvenile sexual abusers and general delinquents. Journal of Juvenile Justice, 5(2), 121-133.

Brown, A. (2011). Boys, violent behavior and sexual abusing. FOCUS/National Association of Social Workers, Massachusetts Chapter, June 38(6).

Brown, A. and Burton, D.L. (2010). Exploring the overlap in male juvenile sexual offending and general delinquency: Trauma, alcohol use, and masculine beliefs. Journal of Child Sexual Abuse, (19)4, 450-468.

Yoder, J., Brown, A., Grady, M. Dillard, R., and Kennedy, N. (2020). Positive caregiving styles attenuating effects of cumulative trauma among youth who commit sexual crimes. International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology.

Graham Holmes, L., Nilssen, A. R., Cann, D., & Strassberg, D. S. (2020). A sex-positive mixed methods approach to sexting experiences among college students. Computers in Human Behavior.

Graham Holmes, L., Shattuck, P. T., Nilssen, A. R., Strassberg, D. S., & Himle, M. B. (2020). Sexual and reproductive health service utilization and sexuality for teens on the autism spectrum. Journal of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics.

Dewinter, J., van der Miesen, A., & Graham Holmes, L. (2020). Stakeholder perspectives on priorities for future research on autism, sexuality, and intimate relationships. Autism Research, 13, 1248-1257.

Graham Holmes, L., Himle, M. B., & Strassberg, D. S. (2020). Family sexuality communication: Parent report for autistic young adults versus a comparison group. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 50, 3018-3031.

Oliva, L. (October 14, 2020). Gerard Mallon: "Trabajar con jóvenes LGBTQ+ requiere mucha contención y respeto." La Nacion.

https://www.lanacion.com.ar/comunidad/gerard-mallon-trabajar-jovenes-lgtbq-requiere-mucha-nid2340313/

Crutchfield, J., Hall, J. C., Ortega-Williams, A., Webb, S. L. (2020). Colorism and the poetics of resistance among black youth: An application of the colorist-historical trauma framework. Journal of Black Studies, 51(8), 813-831.

https://doi-org.proxy.wexler.hunter.cuny.edu/10.1177/0021934720935849

Ortega-Williams, A., Crutchfield, J., Hall, J. C. (2019). The colorist historical trauma framework: Implications for culturally responsive practice with African Americans. Journal of Social Work.

https://doi-org.proxy.wexler.hunter.cuny.edu/10.1177/1468017319890083

Oswald, A. G., Avery, S., & Fine, M. (revised and resubmitted). Intersectional expansiveness borne at the neuroqueer nexus. Psychology & Sexuality.

Fine, M., Torre, M. E., Oswald, A. G., & Avery, S. (in press). Critical participatory action research: methods and praxis for intersectional knowledge production. Journal of Counseling Psychology.

Oswald, A. G., Bussey, S., Thompson, M. & Ortega-Williams, A. (2020). Disrupting hegemony in social work doctoral education and research: Using autoethnography to uncover possibilities for radical transformation. Qualitative Social Work.

Oswald, A. G., Gardner, D. & Giunta, N. (2019). The LGBT Elder Americans Act: A critical analysis of policy through life course and equity perspectives. Advances in Social Work, 19(1), 121-137.

Oswald, A. G. (2019). A poetic gaze into gay aging. The Qualitative Report, 24(7), 1610-1617.

Javier, N. M. & Oswald, A. G. (2019). LGBTQ health for older adults. Current Geriatrics Reports, 8(29).

Oswald, A. G. & Roulston, K. (2018). Complex intimacy: Theorizing older gay men’s social lives. Journal of Homosexuality, 1-21.

Trussell, D., Xing, T., & Oswald, A. G. (2015). Family leisure and the coming out process for LGB young people and their parents. Annals of Leisure Research, 18(3), 232-341.

Oswald, A. G. & Giunta, N. (in press). Conceptualizing family and leisure in LGBTQ ageing. In D. Trussell and R. Jeans (Eds.) Families, Sport, Leisure and Social Justice. SAGE.

Trussell, D., Xing, T., & Oswald, A. G. (2016). Family leisure and the coming out process of LGB children. In H. Schanzel and N. Carr (Eds.) Children, Families and Leisure. Routledge.

China Center for Social Policy. (October 9, 2020). Professor Rong Zhao discusses gender discrimination in the workplace in China from global comparative perspectives.

Rong Zhao (2020): Are Nonprofits More Equitable than For-Profits? An Estimate of the Gender Pay Gap in the U.S. Human Services Field: Human Service Organizations, Management, Leadership & Governance

In Process

S.J. Dodd (she/her/hers) – Founding Director
Is developing a study to explore mental health professional’s comfort discussing sexuality in practice.

Jama Shelton (they/them/theirs) – Associate Director
Working on a research project exploring sexual agency among LGBTQ young adults experiencing homelessness

Adam Brown (he/him/his) – Faculty Associate

Boys to Men: A Mixed-Methods Exploration of the Internalized Toxic Masculinity of Youth who have Sexually Harmed

The primary purpose of this study was to develop a theory of the relationship between gender identity and the commission of sexual crimes among adolescent males.

Nancy Guinta (she/her/hers) – Faculty Associate
Silberman Aging is working with SAGE to educate service providers in the field of aging on the importance of cultural sensitivity when serving LGBT+ elders.

Alexis Keurbis (she/her/hers) – Faculty Associate
Working with Ethan Mereish at American University on a study focusing on the impact of social context and social pressure on daily heavy drinking among men who have sex with men.

Austin Oswald (he/him/his) – Faculty Associate
National Program Evaluation of LGBT Sensitivity Trainings for Providers in the Aging Services Network

Under Review

Updates coming soon.

Selected Publications

S.J. Dodd, MSW, Ph.D (she/they) - Founding Director

Jama Shelton, MSW, Ph.D (they/them/theirs) - Associate Director

Adam Brown (he/him/his) - Faculty Associate

Laura Graham Holmes (she/her/hers) - Faculty Associate

Gary Mallon (he/him/his) - Faculty Associate

Anna Ortega-Williams (she, her, hers) - Faculty Associate

Austin Oswald, MPhil, MA, CTRS (he/him/his) - Faculty Associate

Rong Zhao (she/her/hers) - Faculty Associate

In Process

Under Review

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