A collaboration between the Departments of Psychology and Women’s Studies at the University of Michigan, the International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Psychology Summer Institute is a week-long residential program in Ann Arbor, Michigan from August 3rd to 8th, 2008. The institute will provide a unique venue for an intensive exchange of ideas among senior, junior and graduate student scholars located across LGBT psychology. Ten leading scholars in the field of LGBT psychology from the US and the UK will provide attendees with mentorship to foster their professional development as emerging LGBT psychologists, including:

• Lisa Diamond (University of Utah)
• Oliva Espin (San Diego State University)
• Peter Hegarty (University of Surrey, UK)
• Lih-Mei Liao (University College London, UK)
• Allen Omoto (Claremont Graduate University)
• Mark Padilla (University of Michigan)
• Charlotte Patterson (University of Virginia)
• Esther Rothblum (San Diego State University)
• Stephanie Sanders (Indiana University)
• Leonore Tiefer (New York University School of Medicine)

These “senior scholars” represent expertise across the sub-fields of biological psychology, clinical psychology, community psychology, developmental psychology, feminist psychology, health psychology, sexology, social psychology, and the history of psychology. It is our hope that the Institute will help us create an ‘invisible college’ of interdisciplinary and international psychologists working in this area. Dr. Gregory Herek (University of California, Davis) will also participate in selected activities via video link.

The Institute is supported by funds from the College of Literature, Science and the Arts, the Horace A. Rackham School of Graduate Studies, Women’s Studies, Psychology and the Institute for Research on Women and Gender.