Each of the candidates will be
presenting a public lecture on campus, and I urge each of you to encourage your
faculty, staff, and students to attend as many of the presentations as
possible.
The four Kinsey director
candidates are:
- Professor C. Sue Carter: Dr. Carter
is Professor of Psychiatry at University of North Carolina Chapel
Hill and a Visiting Research Professor at Northeastern University in
Boston. She also has been a professor of psychiatry and co-director of the
Brain-Body Center at the University of Illinois, Chicago.
- Professor J. Dennis
Fortenberry:
Dr. Fortenberry is Professor of Pediatrics at the IU School of Medicine as
well as a core faculty member of IU's Center for Sexual Health Promotion
and a Senior Research Fellow at the Kinsey Institute.
- Dr. Debby Herbenick: Dr. Herbenick
is co-director of the Center for Sexual Health Promotion in the
School of Public Health-Bloomington and an Associate Research Scientist in
the School of Public Health's Department of Applied Health Science. She is
also a Sexual Health Educator for The Kinsey Institute's Kinsey
Confidential website and a Research Fellow at The Kinsey
Institute.
- Professor Deborah L.
Tolman:
Dr. Tolman is Professor of Social Welfare and Psychology at the Hunter
College of Social Work and the Graduate Center at City University of New
York and co-founder of SPARK (Sexualization Protest: Action, Resistance,
Knowledge). She recently led an editorial team and more than 80 authors to
complete the two-volume, 1300-page American Psychological Association
Handbook on Sexuality and Psychology.
Each candidate will make her or
his presentation at the Maurer School of Law, Moot Court Room (Room 240)
from 4:30 to 5:30 on the following dates:
Tuesday, March 25
Debby Herbenick
Tuesday, April 1
Dennis Fortenberry
Thursday, April 3
Sue Carter
Monday, April 7
Deborah Tolman
Following each presentation, you
are invited to meet the candidates at a reception in the Maurer School of Law
Faculty Lounge, Room 310.
The internationally recognized
Kinsey Institute is one of IU Bloomington's most well-known research centers
and a true asset to our campus. The Search Committee is pleased to bring these
candidates to campus over the next two weeks. We will hope to see you at
the presentations or in other meetings for the candidates. If you have
any questions, please reach out to me or contact Sherry Knighton-Schwandt (sks@indiana.edu).
Brad Wheeler, Chair
Kinsey Institute
Search Committee
