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Kathleen E. Hull

Protrait: Kathleen E. Hull

Associate Professor
Ph.D. 2001 Northwestern University
Room 1131 Social Sciences
Phone: 612-624-4339
Email: hull@umn.edu
Website: www.soc.umn.edu/~hull/

Curriculum Vitae

Interest Areas

Culture; Law; Social Movements; Family; Gender and Sexuality.

Current Research

“The Construction and Contestation of ‘Family’ in LGBT Communities.”  This project draws upon interviews, focus groups, and archival material to examine the close relationships in the lives of sexual minorities and gender variant people.  LGBT people are often invoked as threats to family in “family values” discourses, even as the gay rights movement focuses more than ever on a range of family issues including marriage and parenting rights.  This project seeks to advance theorizing about nontraditional families and to assess how well the current efforts of the national LGBT movement match the needs and priorities of its constituencies.

“Religion, Science and the Law in Everyday Life and Experience.” This project (with Professor Penny Edgell) uses focus group discussions of contemporary controversies to examine how ordinary citizens reconcile religious beliefs with legal and scientific expertise.

Selected Publications

“The Changing Landscape of Love and Marriage,” with Ann Meier and Timothy Ortyl. 2010. Contexts 9(2):32-37.

Review of Courting Change: Queer Parents, Judges, and the Transformation of American Family Law, by Kimberly D. Richman. 2010.  American Journal of Sociology 115(4):1330-32.

“Young Adult Relationship Values at the Intersection of Gender and Sexuality,” with Ann Meier and Timothy Ortyl.  2009. Journal of Marriage and Family 71(3):510-525.Book Cover: Same-Sex Marriage

“Men and Women of the Bar: The Impact of Gender on Legal Careers,” with Kenneth G. Dau-Schmidt, Marc S. Galanter, and Kaushik Mukhopadhaya. 2009. Michigan Journal of Gender and Law 16:49-145.

Same-Sex Marriage: The Cultural Politics of Love and Law. 2006. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.