Sara McClelland

Appointment: 2009 to 2012
Psychology, Women’s Studies

Sara McClelland’s research focuses on the links between sexual health, psychological research methods, and issues of social justice. Her work has appeared in Harvard Educational Review, Emory Law Journal, and Social Justice Research and is forthcoming in the Journal of Research on Adolescence and the Handbook of Health Psychology. Current research involves developing new methodological approaches to studies of sexual well-being across the life span. Her specific interests are in research designs that enable examinations of how social marginalization due to age, gender, race/ethnicity, class, and/or sexual orientation affects individual and group-level experience of sexual health. In addition, she is co-investigator on a National Institutes of Health study investigating female sexual quality of life after cancer.

She received her Ph.D. in Social/Personality Psychology from The Graduate Center, City University of New York. She currently teaches the departments of Psychology and Women’s Studies, with a focus on adolescent sexual development, sexual health, and research design.