RIA: Principal Investigator - Amy Hequembourg, PhD

Principal Investigator

Sociology

Primary Research Areas

Examine the risk and protective factors associated with substance use and lifespan victimization among sexual minorities (i.e., gay men, lesbians, bisexual men & women, transgendered men & women). Secondary interests: sexual victimization and substance use among heterosexual women and adolescent girls, lesbian parenting.

Current Projects

The Role of Gender & Sexual Identity in Alcohol Use & Victimization (funded by NIAAA). This Mentored Research Scientist Career Development Award will support a five-year plan to enhance Dr. Hequembourg's skills and expertise in addiction research. In addition, it will examine gender and sexual identity differences in alcohol use and victimization from a sexual minority stress perspective (in collaboration with Kathleen A. Parks, PhD, R. Lorraine Collins, PhD, of UB’s School of Public Health and Health Professions, and Michael R. Frone, PhD).

Video Vignettes: Measuring Risk Perception in Alcohol Related Sexual Assaults (funded by NIAAA). Development of a new computerized video vignette measure to assess women's ability to perceive risks for sexual assault during heterosexual drinking situations (in collaboration with Principal Investigator Kathleen A. Parks, PhD, and Co-investigators Maria Testa, PhD and Ronda L. Dearing, PhD).

Representative and Recent Publications

Hequembourg, A., Livingston, J., & Parks, K. (in press). Exploring sexual victimization risks among lesbian and bisexual women. Violence Against Women.

Hequembourg, A., & Dearing, R. (in press). Exploring shame, guilt, and problematic alcohol use among sexual minority men and women. Journal of Homosexuality.

Hequembourg, A., Bimbi, D., & Parsons, J. (2011). Sexual victimization and health-related indicators among sexual minority men. Journal of LGBT Issues in Counseling, 5, 2-20.

Hequembourg, A., & Brallier, S. (2009). An exploration of sexual minority stress across the lines of gender and sexual identity. Journal of Homosexuality, 56, 273-298.

Hequembourg, A., Parks, K., & Vetter, C. (2008). Sexual identity and gender differences in substance use and violence: An exploratory study. Journal of LGBT Issues in Counseling, 2, 174-198.

Parks, K., Hequembourg, A., & Dearing, R. (2008). Women’s social behavior when meeting new men: The influence of alcohol and childhood sexual abuse. Psychology of Women Quarterly, 32, 145-158.

Hequembourg, A. (2007). Becoming lesbian mothers. Journal of Homosexuality, 53, 153-180.

Hequembourg, A. (2007). Lesbian motherhood: Stories of becoming. New York: Harrington Park Press.

Livingston, J. A., Hequembourg, A., Testa, M., & VanZile-Tamsen, C. (2007). Unique aspects of adolescent sexual victimization experiences. Psychology of Women Quarterly, 31, 331-343.

Hequembourg, A., Mancuso, R., & Miller, B. (2006). A comparative study examining associations between women’s drug-related lifestyle factors and victimization within the family. Violence and Victims, 21, 233-248.

Hequembourg, A., & Brallier, S. (2005). Gendered stories of parental caregiving among siblings. Journal of Aging Studies, 19, 53-71.

Hequembourg, A. (2004). Unscripted motherhood: Lesbian mothers negotiating ‘incompletely institutionalized’ family relationships. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 21, 739-762.

Hequembourg, A., & Arditi, J. (1999). Fractured resistances: The debate over assimilationism among gays and lesbians in the United States. The Sociological Quarterly, 40, 663-680.

Hequembourg, A., & Farrell, M. (1999). Lesbian motherhood: Negotiating marginal-mainstream identities. Gender & Society, 13, 540-557. Reprinted in: Altschuler, R. (Ed.). (2001). The gay and lesbian marriage and family reader (pp. 126-148). New York: Gordian Knot Books.