Andrea Kelley

Assistant Professor, Affiliated Faculty

Holmes Hall, W-187

adkelley@msu.edu

Biography

My research and teaching interests encompass intersections of health and medicine, gender and sexuality, and justice. Although I build my courses and research projects around sociological theory, I incorporate my educational training and professional experience as a social worker, school sexuality educator, and adolescent reproductive health counselor into my research methods and course construction. Using an intersectional framework I incorporate discussion of racism, ableism, homophobia, trans

Education

Ph.D. University of Delaware

Publications

Kelley, Andrea D. 2024. “Making Yourself Ugly.” Contexts 23(3):32-37.

Kelley, Andrea D. 2024. “Medical Schools as Cisgendered Organizations.” Social Science & Medicine 350(116913).

Kelley, Andrea D. 2021. “Cisnormative Empathy: A Critical Examination of Love, Support, and Compassion for Transgender People by Their Loved Ones.” Sociological Inquiry 91(3):625-646.

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