Doctoral Student

Gabrielle LaFleur is a PhD Candidate in the Sociology Department of Rutgers, New Brunswick. Her research interests include sexual violence, sexuality, gender, and cognitive/"concept-driven" sociology.

She is currently working on her dissertation, "Damaged Goods: Victimhood-Survivorship and the Social Marking of Identity," a symbolic interactionist and Zerubavelian-culturalist cognitive sociological analysis revealing the attentional, classificatory, and semiotic dimensions of sexaul violence. An article of the same name will appear in the February 2024 issue of Symbolic Interaction. Her Master's Thesis, which was published in the February 2022 issue of Symbolic Interaction, was entitled "Desire/Desirability: Gender Asymmetries in Heterosexual Erotic Attention."

She holds a M.A. in Sociology from Rutgers University and a B.A. in Sociology & Women and Gender Studies from Smith College, where she graduated Summa cum Laude with Highest Honors