Lisa Wade is an Associate Professor at Tulane University with appointments in sociology, gender and sexuality studies, and the Newcomb Institute. Before receiving her PhD in sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Lisa earned an MA in human sexuality from NYU and a BA in philosophy from the University of California-Santa Barbara.

As a public-facing scholar, Lisa pursues research while also working to make her and others’ scholarship engaging to a public audience. She specializes, in other words, in being as comfortable “in the weeds” as she is “in the clouds.” Her  book, American Hookup, is about the emergence and character of the culture of sex that dominates college campuses today.

Lisa has authored two dozen academic research articles and book chapters and has edited or authored four books:

• American Hookup: The New Culture of Sex on Campus is, for now, the definitive book on collegiate sexual culture. You can read excerpts at TIME and The Guardian and inquire about speaking here.
• Terrible Magnificent Sociology, a solo-authored introduction to sociology.
• Gender: Ideas, Interactions, Institutions, with Myra Marx Ferree, is in its 3rd edition.
• Assigned: Life with Gender is an anthology co-edited with Chris Uggen and Douglas Hartmann.

Her newest book — tentatively titled Tested: Life with Covid at an American Party School — is contracted for publication with W.W. Norton & Co.

In 2007, Lisa founded Sociological Images, a website for which she earned several awards, including the Distinguished Contributions to Teaching Award from the American Sociological Association. Today, she regularly informs journalism and writes for the general public, occasionally appearing on television and radio. You can follow Lisa on Bluesky @lisawade.

Please see her full curriculum vitae for more.

Contact Information:

email: lwade3@tulane.edu

Lisa Wade, PhD
Tulane University
Sociology Department
Newcomb Hall, Suite 200
6823 St Charles Ave.
New Orleans, LA 70118

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Photo credit: Curtis Knapp.