Dr. Ellen C. Lamont

Ellen Lamont is an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology. She holds a Ph.D. in Sociology from New York University, an M.A. in International Relations from the University of Chicago, and a B.A. in Peace and Conflict Studies from the University of California, Berkeley. Her current research uses in-depth interviews to examine how gender and sexuality shape people's hook up, dating, and relationship behaviors and narratives. She has published articles in Gender & Society, Men & Masculinities, and Sociological Forum. Her book project, The Mating Game: Courtship in an Era of Gender Upheaval, is under contract with the University of California Press. She teaches Constructions of Gender, Sociology of Families, Women, Crime, and the Justice System, and Sociology of Intimate Relationships at Appalachian State University.

Website: https://soc.appstate.edu/faculty-staff/ellen-c-lamont-phd

Recent GWS Publications

Lamont, Ellen. Forthcoming February 2020. The Mating Game: How Gender Still Shapes How We Date. University of California Press.

 shuster, stef, and Ellen Lamont. 2020. "Sticks and Stones Break Our Bones, and Words Are Damaging: How Language Regulates Non-binary People." The Emergence of Trans: Essays on Politics, Culture, and Everyday Life, edited by I. Moon, R. Pearce, K. Gupta, and D.L. Steinberg. London, UK: Routledge. Pp. 103-115.

 Lamont, Ellen, Teresa Roach, and Sope Kahn. 2018. "Navigating Campus Hookup Culture: LGBTQ Students and College Hookups." Sociological Forum 33(4): 1000-1022. Lamont, Ellen. 2017 "'We Can Write the Scripts Ourselves': Queer Challenges to Heteronormative Dating and Courtship Practices." Gender & Society31(5): 624-646.

"Affection and Passion in Early Modern Spanish Separations" in Courtship, Marriage and Marriage Breakdown: Approaches from the History of Emotion, edited by Katie Barclay, Jeffrey Meek, Andrea Thomson (Routledge, November, 2019).

"Introduction" and "Chapter Two, Religion: Defending Continuity in an Age of Change," in a text I edited titled A Cultural History of Marriage in the Age of Enlightenment (1650-1800) Edited by Edward Behrend-Martinez (Appalachian State University, USA), Bloomsbury, December, 2019.

Title: Assistant Professor
Department: Department of Sociology

Email address: Email me

Phone: (828) 262-7658