Phillip Hammack
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Professor Hammack is an expert on sexual and gender diversity, with particular interest in the following areas:
• Newer or more visible sexual and gender identities in the 21st century, including nonbinary gender, pansexuality, ace spectrum identities, polyamory, sexual subcultures and identities
• Experiences of stigma among those expressing intimate diversity, including those who practice consensual nonmonogamies, kink/BDSM, and those who form queer chosen families
• Queer men’s health and identity development in the 21st century, with a focus on queer masculinities, sexual health and subcultures, and stigma and mental health
• The use of psychedelic medicine among those diverse in gender or sexuality to process trauma and promote health and wellbeing
• Paradigm, theory, and method in the social sciences, with a particular interest in narrative theory and methods, social justice, cultural psychology, and life course theory
Embedded in all of Professor Hammack’s current work is an interest in the following:
• Generational and intersectional patterns of experience
• Social technology mediation (i.e., the role of social media in experience and development)
• Legal, institutional, and social policies regarding sexual and gender diversity
• Accessibility and practical application of knowledge produced
Primary Interests:
- Gender Psychology
- Political Psychology
- Self and Identity
- Sexuality, Sexual Orientation
Research Group or Laboratory:
- Sexual & Gender Diversity Laboratory
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Books:
- Hammack, P. L. (2011). Narrative and the politics of identity: The cultural psychology of Israeli and Palestinian youth. New York: Oxford University Press.
- Hammack, P. L., & Cohler, B. J. (Ed.). (2009). The story of sexual identity: Narrative perspectives on the gay and lesbian life course. New York: Oxford University Press.
Journal Articles:
- Hammack, P. L. (2008). Narrative and the cultural psychology of identity. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 12(3), 222-247.
- Hammack, P. L. (2005). The life course development of human sexual orientation: An integrative paradigm. Human Development, 48, 267-290.
- Hammack, P. L., & Cohler, B. J. (2011). Narrative, identity, and the politics of exclusion: Social change and the gay and lesbian life course. Sexuality Research and Social Policy, 8, 162-182.
- Hammack, P. L., Thompson, E. M., & Pilecki, A. (2009). Configurations of identity among sexual minority youth: Context, desire, and narrative. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 38, 867-883.
- Hammack, P. L., & Windell, E. P. (2011). Psychology and the politics of same-sex desire in the United States: An analysis of three cases. History of Psychology, 14(3), 220-248.
Courses Taught:
- Adolescence and Youth
- Culture and Identity
- History and Systems of Psychology
- Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Psychology
- Paradigms of Culture
- Person, Culture, Society
- Psychology of Prejudice and Intergroup Conflict
- Qualitative Research Methods in the Social Sciences
- Sexual Identity
- Sexual Identity and the Life Course
- Social Psychology of Intergroup Relations
Phillip Hammack
Department of Psychology
University of California, Santa Cruz
1156 High Street
Santa Cruz, California 95064
United States of America
- Phone: (831) 459-1050
- Fax: (831) 459-3519
