Lanier F. Basenberg

Lanier Basenberg is working on completing her M.A. The title of her thesis is: "Young Women's Opinions About Sexuality", and it explores the ways in which college-aged women deal with the contradictions they face regarding norms about sexuality and sexual behavior. She completed her undergraduate degree in sociology at Kenyon College in 2005, and spent part of 2004 studying social theory at the Universitaet Tuebingen. Ms. Basenberg's primary interests are sexuality, gender, deviance, social psychology, and linguistics.

Conference Presentations

2008: The Linguistic Discourse Surrounding Homoerotic Experimentation. The Southern Sociological Society annual meeting. Richmond, VA. April 9-12 2008.

2005: How Do College-Aged Women Define What is Sexy? Midwestern Sociological Society. Minneapolis, Minnesota. March 31-April 3 2005.

Contact Information

Lanier F. Basenberg
Department of Sociology
The University of Tennessee
Knoxville, TN 37996-0490

Email: lbasenbe@utk.edu