Abigail Stewart is Sandra Schwarz Tangri Distinguished University Professor of Psychology and Women’s Studies at the University of Michigan and director of the ADVANCE Program at the University of Michigan. Her research has focused on the psychology of women’s lives, personality, and adaptation to personal and social changes. She has recently published a study of LGBT science and engineering faculty, and is working with graduate students on approaches to measuring heteronormativity.

Peter Hegarty, who received his doctorate from Stanford University, is a social psychologist and historian of psychology. He is currently employed in the Psychology Department at the University of Surrey. Both lines of his research interrogate links between sexual politics and empiricist narratives in the psychological sciences. He is currently working on a project about Alfred Kinsey, Lewis Terman, and statistical practices in sexuality research.

Nicola Curtin is a doctoral candidate in the joint program Personality Psychology and Women’s Studies at the University of Michigan. Her research interests include ally activism (including heterosexual people’s involvement in LG activism) and broad examinations of the role that beliefs about gender and sexuality play in women’s lives (including their effects on sexual health, activism, and political beliefs).

Terri Conley received her Ph.D. from UCLA in social psychology and is on the faculty in Psychology and Women’s Studies at Univeristiy of Michigan. She studies non-monogamy and the limitations of monogamy, gender differences in sexuality and LGBQ people’s perceptions of heterosexuals.

Samantha Montgomery is a student in the joint doctoral program in Women’s Studies and Psychology. Her research examines the effects of prescriptive gender roles and normative expectations about heterosexuality. Specifically, she is interested in heteronormativity and how it relates to important life outcomes and political engagement.

Sari van Anders is Assistant Professor of Psychology, Women’s Studies, Neuroscience and Reproductive Sciences at the University of Michigan. Dr. van Anders research focuses on social modulation of hormones in humans via intimacy-related contexts like partnering, sexuality, and nurturance, while attending to gender/sex and sexual diversity. Dr. van Anders also works on developing feminist science and inclusive research practices for her (and eventually others’) behavioral neuroscience research programs.