RIA: Principal Investigator - Amy L. Hequembourg, Ph.D.

Principal Investigator

Amy Hequembourg, Ph.D.

Sociology

Primary Research Areas

Associations among substance use, sexual identity, and victimization (e.g., childhood sexual abuse, adult sexual assault, intimate partner violence); victimization and substance use among heterosexual women; lesbian parenting; sexual minority stress.

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, Ph.D., R. Lorraine Collins, Ph.D., of UB’s School of Public Health and Health Professions, and Michael R. Frone, Ph.D.).

Representative and Recent Publications

Parks, K., Hequembourg, A., & Dearing, R. L. (in press). Women’s social behavior when meeting new men: The influence of alcohol and childhood sexual abuse. Psychology of Women Quarterly.

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

Hequembourg, A. (in press). Becoming lesbian mothers. Journal of Homosexuality.

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., & Brallier, S. (in press). An exploration of sexual minority stress across the lines of gender and sexual identity. Journal of Homosexuality.

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.

Arditi, J., & Hequembourg, A. (1999). Partial modifications: Discourses of resistance among gays and lesbians in the United States. Politica Y Sociedad, 30, 61-72.

Hequembourg, A. (1999). Family relationships. In Timothy Murphy (Ed.), Reader’s guide to lesbian and gay studies (pp. 213-214). London: Fitzroy Dearborn.

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.