Visiting Scholars

Current Visiting Scholars

Sven-Axel Månsson, PhD.
Program Director, Gender, Sexuality and Social Work, University of Malmo, Sweden
Dr. Månsson's research addresses prostitution in contemporary and historical contexts, trafficking, and the use of pornography by adolescents.

Visiting Scholars, 1995-2007

Jerome Cerny, Ph.D., R.N. (September 1998-August 1999)
Dept. of Psychology, Indiana State University
Terre Haute, Indiana
Dr. Cerny's research was on the psychophysiological processes of sexual behavior. He wasinvolved in studies on the voluntary control of ejaculation in men and on the development of new measures of sexual response in women.

Elise Chenier (September 1999 - May 2000)
Dept. of History, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
Funded by the Fulbright Foundation.
Ms. Chenier's current project is a study of the introduction of psychiatric and psychological treatment programs for sex offenders in Ontario prisons. She comes to the Institute as part of a Fulbright program. Her previous work includes a social history of postwar lesbian bar culture in Toronto.

Richard A. Crosby, Ph.D. (June, 2002)
Assistant Professor, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, Ga.
While at the Institute, Dr. Crosby collaborated with Drs. Yarber, Sanders and Graham to analyze and interpret findings from a survey designed to assess errors and problems that people experience when they use condoms. See Condom Use Study.

Heather Hoffmann, Ph.D.(Jul.-Aug. 2000)
Associate Professor
Knox College, Galesburg, Il.
While at the Institute, Dr. Hoffmann designed a research agenda to examine the role of classical conditioning in sexual arousal.

Jonathan Gathorne-Hardy (1995-1996)
Fakenham, England
Gathorne-Hardy researched Sex, The Measure of All Things: A Life of Alfred C. Kinsey published in London by Chatto & Windus in 1998 and Indiana University Press in 2000.

Dongwoo Kang, M.D. (May 2003-April 2004)
Seoul, Korea
Dr. Kang is a neuropsychiatrist from South Korea. During his scholarship at the Institute, Dr. Kang received training in clinical sexology with Dr. John Bancroft, the Director of the Kinsey Institute and the Kinsey Sexual Health Clinic. He has also participated in the development of research protocol and observed various aspects of research and therapy in human sexual behavior, with a goal of designing a collaborative research project to be carried out upon his return to Korea.

Alejandro Jiminez (March 1999 - March 2000)
University of La Laguna/ University Hospital of Canarias Tenerife, SPAIN
He joins the Institute's research team working on epidemiological studies of personality traits related to sexual response, inhibition, and sexual function.

Joanne J. Meyerowitz, Ph.D. (SSRC Fellow, 1996-1997)
Associate Professor, Department of History
Indiana University.
Dr. Meyerowitz was awarded a Postdoctoral Sexuality Research Fellowship from the Social Science Research Council to conduct research for a book on the history of transsexuality in the United States, 1930-1970. For more on Dr. Meyerowitz's project see "Social Science Research Council Supports Sexuality Research," an article in the I.U. publication, Research and Creative Activity.

Pedro Nobre, Ph.D. (September 2007)
Assistant Professor, Psychology
Director, Master Program in Clinical Psychology, Trás-os-Montes University, Portugal
Dr. Nobre conducts cross cultural studies, examining an individual’s psychological vulnerability and the role of these factors on sexual dysfunction. He is currently collecting data in Portugal, US, Italy, Turkey, and Brazil. He is also conducting a longitudinal study using scales developed at The Kinsey Institute (Sexual Inhibition and Sexual Excitation scales) and measures of sexual beliefs and cognitive schemas to predict sexual satisfaction and dysfunction.

Jakob Pastoetter, M.A. (August 1998 - April 2000)
Dept. of Education, Humboldt Unversity, GERMANY
Mr. Pastoetter was doing research in the Institute's film/video collection for this doctoral thesis, "Structures and Functions of Pornographic Films."
His focus is on changes in films from the early 1970's to today and what they tell us about fantasies and fears connected with sexuality.

Meredith A. Reynolds, Ph.D. (SSRC Fellow 1997-1999)
After completing a year as a Fulbright Fellow in Spain, Dr. Reynolds was awarded a Social Science Research Council fellowship to study the characteristics and effects of childhood sexual play experiences through a survey of university students and secondary analyses of original Kinsey Institute interview data.
See Childhood Sexual Play: A Study of Adults' Recollections.

Daniel Rozenman, M.D. (1998-2000)
Kaplan Medical Center at Hebrew University
Rehovot, ISRAEL
Dr. Rozenman's specialty is gynecology with research interests in sexuality and menopause. While at the Institute, he studied the Effects of Evista on Sexuality and Well-Being of Women.

Joanne L. Rouleau, Ph.D. (Fall 1998)
Dept. of Psychology, University of Montreal
Montreal, CANADA
Prof. Rouleau directs a clinic that provides assessment and treatment of sexual offenders.

Benjamin Sachs (1995)
Professor Emeritus
Department of Psychology
University of Connecticut
Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study, Indiana University, Oct. 1995
For more on Prof. Sachs' project, see the Institute for Advanced Studies' Building Collegiality with the Outside, and scroll down to John Bancroft and Benjamin Sachs.

Aleksandar Stulhofer, Ph.D. (July - August, 2007 and March - June, 2000)
Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Zagreb, Croatia.
Dr. Stulhofer's research included: an analysis of the US and Dutch school-based sex education curricula, cross-cultural study (Croatia, US, and Ukraine) of sexual risk-taking in late adolescence (in collaboration with the University of Southern Oregon), and a survey based research on habitual pornography users (in collaboration with the California State University Northridge).

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Visiting Scholars, 1981-1994

Elizabeth Rice Allgeier, Ph.D. (1986)
Associate Professor
Department of Psychology
Bowling Green State University
Bowling Green, OH

Timour Beissembiev (1990-1992)
Visiting Scholar
I.U. Institute for Inner Asian Studies
Kazakhstan

Edward M. Brecher (1986)
Yelping Hill
West Cornwall, CT

Frederick Bunce, Ph.D. (1982-84)
Chairperson
Department of Art
Indiana State University

Robert Michael Carter, Ph.D. (1987)
Fine Arts Department
University of Sydney
New South Wales 2006, Australia

George Chauncey, Ph.D.
Dept. of History, University of Chicago
A pioneering scholar on the history of homosexual men, Prof. Chauncey conducted research for the sequel to Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940 (Basic Books, 1994) during a three-week stay at Indiana University in September, 1998, sponsored by The Kinsey Institute and the I.U. Department of History as part of the Institute for Advanced Study's external academic fellowship program.

Cornelia Christenson (1981-1984)
Annemarie Springer, Ph.D.
Bloomington, IN

David Crews, Ph.D. (1983-1984)
Associate Professor
Departments of Zoology and Psychology
University of Texas, Austin

Luk Gijs (1990-1992)
State University of Utrecht
The Netherlands

Roger Gorski, Ph.D. (1986)
Professor and Chairman
Director, Laboratory of Neuroendocrinology
Brain Research Institute
Department of Anatomy
UCLA School of Medicine
Los Angeles, CA

Erwin J. Haeberle, Ph.D., Ed.D. (1982-1984)
Institute for Advanced Study of Human Sexuality

Joseph Harry, Ph.D. (1982-1983)
Associate Professor
Department of Sociology
Northern Illinois University

Yoshio Hata (1992)
The Japanese Association for Sex Education
Japan

Paul Jamison, Ph.D. (1982-1985)
Associate Professor
Department of Anthropology
Indiana University, Bloomington

James H. Jones, Ph.D. (1983-1985)
Associate Professor
Department of History
University of Houston

Kozi Kawamobi (1990-1992)
University of Tokyo

Igor Kon (1990)
Professor
Institute of Ethnography
USSR Academy of Sciences
Moscow, USSR

Gertrude Lehnert-Rodiek (1990-1992)
Assistant Professor
Department of Comparative Literature
University of Bonn

Bo Lewin, Ph.D (1984)
Professor, Sociology
Uppsala University
Sweden

Lyliane Mathieu-Kerns, Ph.D. (1982-84)
Associate Professor of French
Department of Romance Languages and Literatures
Kent State University

Jose Nieto, Ph.D. (1987)
Universidad Nacional de Educacion a Distancia
28010 Madrid, Spain

Helmuth Nyborg, Ph.D (1985)
Professor
Institute of Psychology and Cytogenetic Laboratory
University of Aarhus
Denmark

Josef Parnas, M.D. (1987)
Ovl., dr. med.
Psykiatrisk Afdeling
Kommunehospitalet
Copenhagen, Denmark

Rob Patrick (1987)
Educational Testing Service
Princeton, NJ

F. Paul Pearsall, Ph.D. (1986)
Chief, Problems of Daily Living Clinic
Sinai Hospital of Detroit
6450 Farmington Rd., Suite 105
West Bloomfield, MI

Birgit Peitersen, M.D. (1987)
Chief Physician
Pediatric and Neonatal Department
Hvidovre University Hospital
DK - 2650 Copenhagen, Denmark

Friedemann Pfafflin, M.D. (1985)
Assistant Professor
Dept. of Sex Research
University Clinic
Univ. of Hamburg
West Germany

K. Pospiszyl (1990-1992)
Visiting Scholar
I.U. Polish Studies/ Women's Studies
Warsaw, Poland

Leonard A. Rosenblum, Ph.D. (1987)
Department of Psychiatry
SUNY Health Science Center at Brooklyn
Brooklyn, NY

Donald Rubin, Ph.D (1987)
Professor and Chair
Department of Statistics
Harvard University
Cambridge, MA

Vincent Shieh (1992)
Angela Lo
Center for Research on Gender
Kaohsiung Medical College
Taiwan

Vilgot Sjoman (1990-1992)
Swedish filmmaker

Thorkild I. A. Sorensen, M.D. (1987)
1. Reservelaege, dr. med.
Med. Hepatologisk Afdeling
Hvidovre Hospital
Hvidovre, Denmark

Donald Symons, Ph.D. (1986)
Professor
Department of Anthropology
University of California, Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA

Terry Tafoya, Ph.D. (1986 - 1987)
Professor of Psychology
The Evergreen State College
Olympia, WA

Peter Teilmann, M.D. (1987)
Child Psychiatry Department
Afdeling
Central Syghuset, Denmark

Jan Trost, Ph.D (1985)
Professor, Sociology
Uppsala University
Sweden

Victor Velasco (1992)
Oscar Chavez
AIDS educators from Mexicanos Contra El SIDA
Mexico City, Mexico

Tom Weber, M.D. (1987)
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Hvidovre Hospital
Hvidovre, Denmark