Chapman University welcomes Dr. Lisa Wade, an associate professor of sociology at Occidental College, to share her research and findings on American hook-up culture, the topic of her recent book.  Rising above misinformation and moralizing of the sexual culture on college campuses, Dr. Wade offers the definitive account of the new sexual culture on campus in her recent book American Hook-up: the New Culture of Sex on Campus.  It situates the hookup culture within the history of sexuality, the evolution of higher education, and the unfinished feminist revolution.  With new research, Wade maps out a punishing emotional landscape marked by unequal pleasures, competition for status, and sexual violence.  

Accessible and open-minded, compassionate and brutally honest, American Hookup explains where we are and how we got here, asking not “How do we go back?” but “Where do we go from here?”

Dr. Wade received 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. She has authored over a dozen academic research articles and a textbook on the sociology of gender, and has spoken at numerous university campuses. She also actively contributes to media, writing extensively for non-academic audiences and appearing on television and radio.

Chapman University invites students, faculty, and staff to come hear Dr. Lisa Wade on Wednesday, October 10, 2018, at 7:30 p.m. in Sandhu Conference Center, rooms D and D1.