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Office Hours

Fall 2025 - Appointment Only

Research Interests

Sexualities

Race, Class & Gender

Sociology of Deviance

Sociology of Emotions

Queer Theory

Education

M.A in Sociology, May 2023 – University of Memphis

  • Thesis: “Queering Edgework: An Autoethnographic Account of Cruising for Sex”
  • Thesis Advisor: Dr. Carol Rambo

B.A. in Sociology, May 2021 – California State University, Bakersfield

  • Cum Laude
  • Minor in Political Science

A.A. in Sociology, May 2018 – Bakersfield College

 

Awards and Honors

ASA Theory Section’s Edward Shils-James Coleman Prize for Best Graduate Student Paper – “Queering Edgework: An Autoethnographic Account of Cruising for Sex.”

Courses Taught

SOC 310: Sociology of Deviance

Highlighted Publications

Richardson, Jacob W. 2024. “Queering Edgework: An Autoethnographic Account of Cruising for Sex.” The Journal of Autoethnography 5(1): 95-114. https://doi.org/10.1525/joae.2024.5.1.95

Richardson, Jacob W. 2024. “Silence, Shame, and Disrupting Heteronormative Ethics in Sexualities Research: Autoethnographic Reflections of a Queer Researcher.” Deviant Behavior 45(3): 422-437. https://doi.org/10.1080/01639625.2023.2249191

Richardson, Jacob W. 2022. “’It doesn’t include us’: Heterosexual Bias and Gay Men’s Struggle to See Themselves in Affirmative Consent Policies.” Sexuality, Gender & Policy 5(1):69-86. https://doi.org/10.1002/sgp2.12040

Recent Publications

Moussawi, Ghassan, Jacob W. Richardson, and Theodore Greene. 2025. "Beyond Positionalities: Moving Toward a Queer Embodied Approach to Researching LGBTQ+ Space and Placemaking." Sex & Sexualities. Online First (https://doi.org/10.1177/30333717251375993).