Meagan Pendleton (she/her) is a third-year Ph.D. Student in the Department of Sociology at The Ohio State University. She received her BA in Sociology with a minor in Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies from Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi in May 2022. Meagan is currently advised by Dr. Rin Reczek.  

Meagan's master's thesis and second-year paper explores the biseuxal identity formation process of bisexual young adults. Drawing on a queer theory approach and in-depth interview data from 25 bisexual-identified young adults this research questions: 1) How do bisexual young adults gain an understanding of their sexuality? And 2) How do bisexual young adults understand their sexuality in the context of other identities such as race/ ethnicity and gender identity?