Eleanor J. Junkins

I am a postdoctoral trainee funded by the NIMH T32 Training Program in Emotion Research working with Dr. Kate Walsh, a clinical psychology. For two years prior, I was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in the Department of Human Development and Family Studies working with Drs. Brian Ogolsky and Jen Hardesty. I earned my PhD in psychology at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign working in the social-personality area with Dr. Jaime Derringer.

I am a personality psychologist interested in individual characteristics, close relationships, and mental health. My research seeks to represent and address generalizability to underrepresented groups, primarily focusing on sexual and gender diversity and diverse relationship structures. As norms and identities shift over time, I believe it is vital both for theorizing and applied research that our scientific knowledge reflects diverse lived experiences and explains the contexts under which specific psychological outcomes will unfold, and to that end my work aims to contribute.

To put my interests succinctly, my motto in life, research, and teaching is "Norming queer and queering the norm". 

Email: junkins2@illinois.edu

Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=PHmG9LcAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao 

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2878-6290

OSF: osf.io/pgcfb

Research website: https://publish.illinois.edu/powerstudy-research/ 

Research Instagram: @power_relationship_study

For questions about the POWER study, please email me at POWER-study@illinois.edu.