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Mercedez Dunn-Gallier, Ph.D., M.P.H
Mercedez Dunn-Gallier, Ph.D., M.P.H
(she/her)
Lab Director
Dr. Dunn-Gallier is an assistant professor of sociology at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County in the Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Public Health. She is also a faculty affiliate with UMBC's Department of Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies and UMBC's Center for Health, Equity, and Aging.
Dr. Dunn-Gallier uses qualitative methods to study gender, race, class, sexuality, and sexual health. By representing Black women's experiences as they make sense of and live them, her work aims to offer more comprehensive, counter-normative approaches to sociological understandings of Black gender and sexualities. She received her Ph.D. in sociology and Master of Public Health from the University of Michigan. She is a proud alumna of Spelman College, where she completed her undergraduate degree in sociology.
Kendal Howell '26
Kendal Howell '26
Undergraduate Research Assistant
(she/her)
Kendal Howell is pursuing a Bachelors of Arts in Africana Studies and Sociology and a minor in Entrepreneurship. She is a 3rd year Humanities Scholar at UMBC and has been a member of the ASHE Lab since Spring 2024.
Aanayah Trotman
Aanayah Trotman
Undergraduate Research Assistant
(she/her)
Aanayah is a sophmore at UMBC. She is studying psychology and Africana studies with a minor in sociology. Aanayah is a McNair Scholar and has been a member of the ASHE Lab since Spring 2024.
Don McCray
Don McCray
Undergraduate Research Assistant
(he/him)
Include: Senior,Sociology Major/Philosophy Minor/program
Moriah Icart
Moriah Icart
Graduate Research Assistant
(she/her)
Moriah Icart is a graduate student at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County in the Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Public Health. She is enrolled in the Master of Arts in Applied Sociology program and is expected to graduate in the Fall of 2025.
Lab Alumni
Reid Berry
Reid Berry
(they/them)
Reid is a recent M.A. graduate in Applied Sociology (University of Maryland, Baltimore County) and incoming Sociology PhD student at the University of California, Irvine. They are broadly interested in gender, sexuality, and the life course, with special attention to queer family formation, friendship, and accumulated effects of minority stress on transgender and nonbinary populations. They will be presenting their Master's Paper, "Beyond heterosexual? Understanding gender, gender expression, and attraction to genderqueer populations", at the 2nd International Trans* Studies Conference in Chicago.
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