Meredith G. F. Worthen Ph.D.

Meredith G. F. Worthen, Ph.D., (she/her/hers) is a Professor of Sociology and Sexualities/LGBTQ Studies scholar with key interests in stigma, prejudice, and victimization. She is a ScholarGPS highly ranked scholar in Human Sexuality, Social Policy, and Sociology.

She is a social justice activist for the LGBTQ community, especially through her creation of The Welcoming Project, and an advocate for survivors of sexual assault through her work as #MeTooMeredith. As a researcher, teacher, and activist, she dissects multiple dimensions of prejudice in efforts to cultivate understanding, empathy, and social change.

She is author of more than 100 academic pieces including two books: Interrogating the Use of LGBTQ Slurs: Still Smearing the Queer (2024) and Queers, Bis, and Straight Lies: An Intersectional Examination of LGBTQ Stigma (2020). In addition, she focuses her teaching efforts on disentangling the sociological constructions of sexual deviance using her textbook, Sexual Deviance and Society: A Sociological Examination (2022, second edition).