Current Research

Manuscripts Under Review or Revision

1. Partnering in Turbulent Times: Hooking up, Dating, and Romantic Relationships in College, 2019-2024 (with Briana Daniels*, Celeste Curington and Jennifer Lundquist) Under Review after R & R

2.  Student Loan Debt and Higher Education Impacts of COVID-19. (With Danny Turkson*, Joan Maya Mazelis, Katherine Fredricks* and Anurag Pant*) Under Review after R & R 

3. "It's at odds with how I live my Life": Masculinity, Gender, BDSM Roles and Identity Disclosure (With Alicia M. Walker and Audrey Lutmer*) Under Revision after R & R

4. Accounting for Worse Health and Less Health Care Use Among Gender Expansive College Students (With Kalvin Benfield*) Under Review 

5.  From Munches to Meaning: BDSM Communities, Connection, and Social Networks (With Alicia M. Walker) Under Review 

Manuscripts In Progress

6. Male College Victims of Rape (With David DiMarco, Ryan Savitz, Jennifer Lundquist). Past Research Assistant: Sreya Sunkara

7. “Better Than Vanilla”: BDSM Practitioners’ Perceived Sexual and Relationship Superiority (With Alicia M. Walker)

8. College Sexual Partnering Before and After the Dobbs Decision (With Sreya Sunkara*, Jennifer Lundquist). 

9. Book Project on Student Loans (with Joan Maya Mazelis)

10. Sexualities textbook (With Alicia M. Walker). Under Contract with Sage. Past Research Assistants: August Wichmann, Wokeya Fahra

Research Projects in Research/Data Collection Stages

UNCG students and prospective graduate students interested in working on this or related research should contact Dr. Kuperberg directly to discuss research opportunities.  These projects include opportunities to learn about and gain experience in quantitative data collection and analysis.

11. A new class divide: Student Loans and the Transition to Adulthood (With Joan Maya Mazelis). An NSF funded mixed-methods project examining the transition out of college and into young adulthood among graduates with and without loans. Past Research Assistants: Joe Barker, Kalvin Benfield, Allison M. Chandler, Elise Coffman, Kaosi Di-Ibor, Jazmyn Edwards, Wokeya Farha, Jasmine Gibbs, Heidi Liles, JR Moller, Anurag Pant, Cassandra Patterson, Stephanie Pruitt, Jairo Rodriguez Bustamante, Souleymane Hamza Saloum, Anastasia Shymanovich, Danny Turkson, August Wichmann, Kenneshia Williams. 

12. Online College Social Life Survey (OCSLS), Wave 2: Data on college hookups and romantic relationships currently being collected by Jennifer Lundquist and Celeste Curington, in partnership with Paula England, Arielle Kuperberg, and Lisa Wade. Past Research Assistants: Briana Lanier, Sreya Sunkara, Will Tasho.

13. Project on falling fertility (With Alicia M. Walker). Past Research Assistant: Sayer VanDyke.

14. Project on Polyamory (With Alicia M. Walker)