Institute Director: Stephen T. Russell, Ph.D.

Welcome to the 6th Annual NSRC Summer Institute on Sexuality, Inequality and Health at San Francisco State University. With Dr. Gilbert Herdt, Director of the National Sexuality Resource Center, I invite you to join us for the 2007 NSRC Summer Institute. This year we have a new downtown San Francisco location, and we are planning a vibrant, intellectually stimulating and personally meaningful experience.

Why study sexuality, inequality, and health? Contemporary research and advocacy seek to examine how sexual behavior, feelings, and desires, as well as identities and relationships, emerge and change in the course of lives, and in the changing politics of global societies. Culture, gender, social class, race and ethnicity each play fundamental roles in current understandings of sexuality. Through analysis of these inequalities, our goal is to stimulate the study of sexualities, affirm a new vision of sexuality and well being, and expand sexual literacy and sexuality education as basic components of society, citizenship, and human development.

We are excited about the program of leaders in the field of sexuality that will be featured each morning during the Core Seminar. In addition, participants may choose between the afternoon Modular Seminar or a Special Study option to work in a collaborative setting on self-designed projects and programs of scholarship. We look forward to what you, personally, will bring to these ongoing dialogues and the daily discussions.

Application materials are online now. We encourage you to apply early—we reached capacity last year!

See you in San Francisco, Stephen T. Russell, Ph.D. NSRC Summer Institute Director