Lauren M Sardi
Professor of Sociology and Women's & Gender Studies
Dir of the Collaborative for Interdisciplinary & Integr Stud
Lauren M Sardi
Professor of Sociology and Women's & Gender Studies
Dir of the Collaborative for Interdisciplinary & Integr Stud
Dr. Sardi is a Professor of Sociology and Women's & Gender Studies and is the Director of the Women's & Gender Studies Program. Dr. Sardi is also jointly appointed as a Professor of Medical Sciences in the Frank H. Netter, MD School of Medicine. She regularly teaches Introduction to Sociology, Social Control and Deviance, Sexualities, Masculinities, and Popular Culture & Media.
Dr. Sardi's main research interests include feminist theory and methodology, gender and sexualities, deviance and embodiment, human rights, the ethics of genital cutting, and the scholarship of teaching and learning. She has co-authored a number of articles discussing the ethics of routinized penile circumcision performed on infants and the ways in which the procedure is maintained and upheld in the United States. Dr. Sardi is currently researching the long-term outcomes of penile circumcision on adults.
Dr. Sardi's main research interests include feminist theory and methodology, gender and sexualities, deviance and embodiment, human rights, the ethics of genital cutting, and the scholarship of teaching and learning. She has co-authored a number of articles discussing the ethics of routinized penile circumcision performed on infants and the ways in which the procedure is maintained and upheld in the United States. Dr. Sardi is currently researching the long-term outcomes of penile circumcision on adults.
Education
- BA, Stonehill College
- MA, University of Connecticut
- PHD, University of Connecticut
Areas of Expertise
- Gender, Masculinities, and Sexualities
- Social deviance
- Feminist theory
- Social inequality
Organization
- Sociology
Office Location
- College of Arts & Sciences 1 332
Mail Drop
- CL-AC1
Courses
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IDS 400 Transdisciplinary Project
Spring 2025 -
SO 260 Social Control and Deviance
Fall 2024 -
SO 302 Sociology of Sexualities
Spring 2025 -
SO 303 Popular Culture and the Media (WGS 303)
January Term 2025 -
WGS 302 Sociology of Sexualities
Spring 2025 -
WGS 303 Popular Culture and the Media
January Term 2025
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Experience
Quinnipiac University
Professor of Sociology and Women's Studies
2020 - Present
Quinnipiac University
Director, Women's & Gender Studies Program
2019 - Present
Quinnipiac University
Associate Professor of Sociology
2016 - 2020
Quinnipiac University
Assistant Professor of Sociology
2011 - 2016
Quinnipiac University
Visiting Assistant Professor of Sociology
2010 - 2011
Quinnipiac University
Visiting Assistant Instructor of Sociology
2009 - 2010
Quinnipiac University
Part-Time Instructor, Sociology
2009 - 2009
Selected Publications
Peer Reviewed Journal Article Review
Psychological, psychosocial, and psychosexual aspects of penile circumcision
Tye, M. C., Sardi, L. M.
International Journal of Impotence Research (2022)
Peer Reviewed Journal
Demographic Differences in Circumcision Satisfaction among US Males.
Jellison, W. A, Sardi, L. M.
5(1) Men's Health Journal e5 (2021)
Peer Reviewed Journal Article Review
Systematic review of complications arising from male circumcision.
Iacob, S. I, Feinn, R. S., Sardi, L.
BJUI Compass 1-25 (2021)
Book review
Review of Men in Place: Trans Masculinity, Race, and Sexuality in America by Miriam J. Abelson
Sardi, L. M.
34(4) Gender & Society 683-85 (2020)
Critical Perspectives on Boys’ Circumcision
Sardi, L. M., Allan, J. A.
Oxford Bibliographies in Childhood Studies (2019)
Peer Reviewed Journal
Medically Unnecessary Genital Cutting and the Rights of the Child: Moving Toward Consensus
The Brussels Collaboration on Bodily Integrity
19(10) The American Journal of Bioethics 17-28 (2019)