ABOUT phil HAMMACK
Phil Hammack is Professor of Psychology and Director of the Sexual and Gender Diversity Laboratory at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He is also Editor of the Oxford University Press Series on Sexuality, Identity & Society. Trained as an interdisciplinary social scientist at the University of Chicago, Hammack has conducted extensive research on psychological issues related to cultural, sexual, and gender diversity.
EDUCATION
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Social change and the queer life course
How do sexual and gender identity minorities of distinct birth cohorts develop their identities, experience and manage stigma, and make meaning of social change?
2002-2006
University of Chicago
Ph.D., Cultural Psychology, Committee on Human Development
Gay men's health, identity & sexual culture in the twenty-first century
How do diverse gay and other men who have sex with men understand health and identity in the post-AIDS era? How has the sexual culture shifted with innovations in HIV treatment and prevention?
The new queer teenager
How are today's adolescents challenging received binaries and taxonomies to create new identities and communities? How does the experience of queer teens diverge across diverse communities?
Queer intimacies
What is the social and psychological experience of individuals in non-normative relationships such as same-sex, polyamorous, or kink/fetish? What unique experiences exist in relationships for individuals who identify as transgender, gender non-binary, asexual, pansexual, and other diverse gender or sexual identities?
1999-2002
Loyola University Chicago
M.A., Clinical Psychology
1994-1998
Georgetown University
A.B., Psychology (Minor: Sociology)
EDUCATION
AWARDS & FELLOWSHIPS
2002-2006
University of Chicago
Ph.D., Cultural Psychology, Committee on Human Development
2017-2018
Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University
Fellowship
2017-2018
Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University
Fellowship
2013
International Society for Political Psychology
Erik Erikson Early Career Award
2012
Society for the Study of Peace, Conflict & Violence
Ed Cairns Early Career Award
2011-2012
Spencer Foundation/National Academy of Education
Fellowship
2011
Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues (SPSSI)
Louise Kidder Early Career Award
2013-2018
William T. Grant Foundation
Scholar Award
Queer intimacies
What is the social and psychological experience of individuals in non-normative relationships such as same-sex, polyamorous, or kink/fetish? What unique experiences exist in relationships for individuals who identify as transgender, gender non-binary, asexual, pansexual, and other diverse gender or sexual identities?
Narrative, mind & culture
How do individuals engage with stories of group history and identity in the course of development? How is the life story both an individual and social creation?