Dr. Kimberly B. Dugan

Adjunct Lecturer of Sociology & Anthropology
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    • Awards

      Teaching Excellence Award. 2021. Eastern Connecticut State University.

    • Presentations

      Logan, Isabel, Alyssa Lawrence, Cara Bergstrom-Lynch and Kim Dugan. 2021. “Roadmap for Evaluating Racial Climate in an Academic Department: Antiracist Initiatives in a Department of Sociology, Anthropology, Criminology, and Social Work.” Living Multicultural Education: #BlackLivesMatter in the Classroom and Beyond: New England Conference on Multicultural Education (NECME) April 9.

      Dugan, Kim. 2020. “Movement Frames in the Mainstream News: The Fight to Regulate the Sperm Donor Industry” Paper presented at the Eastern Sociological Society Annual Meetings, Philadelphia, PA Feb. 27.

      Dugan, Kimberly. 2018. “The Civil Rights Movement: Enduring Legacies.” At the “The Long Civil Rights Movement: Unfinished Business and Enduring Legacies,” an ACES/Gilder Lehrman Center Summer Institute for School Teachers, Yale University, Summer/June 28.

      Dugan, Kim and Rebecca G. Harvey. 2017. “And, Justice For All: Exploring the Gifts of Queer and Gender Intersectionality.” Association of Humanist Sociologists, Annual Meeting, Havanna, Cuba November 2.

      Harvey, Rebecca G. and Kim Dugan. 2017. “Creating Leaders and Lovers:  Queerness, Intersectionality, and the Reconstruction of Gender, at Our True Colors Annual Conference, Univ. of CT, Storrs, March 17.  

      Dugan, Kimberly, Cara Bergstrom-Lynch, William Lugo, Nicholas Parsons, and Theresa Severance. 2016. “The Three Rs: One Sociology Department's Responses to Mandates for Increasing Retention, Recruitment, and Graduation Rates.” Presented at the Eastern Sociological Society annual meetings, Boston, MA, March 17. 

      Dugan, Kimberly. 2015. “The LGBT/Q Movement in the U.S.” Gilder Lehrman, Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition, Yale University, May 20.

      Dugan, Kimberly and Medora Barnes. 2015. “Sister Moms and Donor Siblings.” Eastern Sociological Society Annual Meetings, New York, February.

      Barnes, Medora W. and Kim Dugan. 2013. “Exploring Biological Connections: Donor Sibling Families and Their Decision Making Processes.” Presented at the Eastern Sociological Society Annual Meetings, Boston March 22.

      Dugan, Kim. 2013. “Asset Based Learning:  Applying the Lessons in Two Courses.” Presented at the Eastern Sociological Society Annual Meeting, Boston March 23.

      Dugan, Kimberly B.  2009. “Claims on Faith: The Gay Rights Movement Takes on Religion.” Paper presented at the Eastern Sociological Society annual meetings, Baltimore, MD, March 20.

       

    • Professional Experience

      Professor Emerita (2025)

      Department of Sociology, Anthropology, Criminology, and Social Work, Eastern Connecticut State University, Willimantic, CT. (1999-2025).

  • Selected Publications
    Books

    Dugan, Kimberly B. 2005. The Struggle Over Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Rights:  Facing Off in Cincinnati. New York: Routledge.  Paper 2013. E-book 2021. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003209393 Reviewed in:  Sexualities 2005. DOI: 10.1177/13634607090120030803.

    Journal Articles

    Dugan, Kimberly. Forthcoming. Yes Gawd! How Faith Shapes LGBT Identity and Politics in the United States. By Royal G. Cravens III. Philadelphia: Temple University Press. Mobilization: An International Journal.

    Simon, Nicolas, Rick Hornung and Kimberly Dugan. 2022. “Summer Bridge Program: Helping Underserved Students Develop Social and Cultural Capital". Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies in Education. Volume 11, No. 1: 126-148. https://www.ojed.org/index.php/jise/article/view/3458   

    Simon, Nicolas P. Kimberly Dugan, and Safa Danesh. 2021. “Using Documentaries as a Support to Knowledge During the Covid-19 Pandemic.” Sociological Imagination Vol. 57,1.  

    Simon, Nicolas and Kimberly Dugan. 2020. “Maintaining the Students Community Despite Remote Learning.”  Teaching/Learning Matters- Newsletter of the American Sociological Association Section on Teaching and Learning. Vol. 48, No. 4: 15-16. https://www.hostos.cuny.edu/Hostos/media/Hostos-News/T-L-ASA-Newsletter-Sp2020.pdf

    Dugan, Kimberly. 2020. Gay Men and Feminist Women in the Fight for Equality: “What Did You Do During the Second Wave, Daddy?”  By Travers D. Scott. New York, New York: Peter Lang, Gender and Society. Vol. 36 Issue 1, p156-158. 2022. DOI: 10.1177/08912432211061311.

    Dugan, Kimberly B. 2017. City of Borders: Love and Consequences Jerusalem’s Only Gay Bar. (film review) 66 minutes. 2009. Yun Suh, director/producer/writer, Play Bigger Productions, LLC. New Day Films P.O. Box 165 Blooming Grove, NY 10914.  http://www.cityofborders.com. Teaching Sociology, Vol. 45, No. 2: p. 203-205.  DOI: 10.1177/0092055X17693837.

    Dugan, Kim 2016. Abortion Politics, Mass Media, and Social Movements in America. By Deana A. Rohlinger. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015. American Journal of Sociology. Vol. 122, No. 1: 303-305. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10.1086/686045#

    Dugan, Kim. 2012. “Value Free Social Movements Courses?” Pedagogy of Social Movements: Round 2 Mobilizing Ideas, August 15. https://mobilizingideas.wordpress.com/2012/08/15/value-free-social-movements-courses/

    Dugan, Kim. 2012. “Keep Riding the Wave but Look out for the Undertow!” LGBT Activism: Has the Tide Turned? Mobilizing Ideas, March 19. http://mobilizingideas.wordpress.com/category/essay-dialogues/lgbt-activism-has-the-tide-turned/.

    Bouley, Theresa M. and Kimberly B. Dugan. 2011. The Politics of Same Sex Marriage Edited by Craig A. Rimmerman and Clyde Wilcox and When Gay People Get Married: What Happens when Societies Legalize Same-Sex Marriage. By M.V. Lee Badgett. Gender and Society.  DOI: 10.1177/0891243211405194.

    Dugan, Kimberly. 2009. How the Religious Right Shaped Lesbian and Gay Activism, by Tina Fetner. Mobilization: An International Journal. Vol. 14 Issue 1: p132-133.

    Dugan, Kimberly B. 2008. “Just Like You:  The Dimensions of Identity Deployment in an Antigay Contested Context.” Pp. 21-46 in Identity Work: Negotiating Sameness and Difference in Activist Environments.  Jo Reger, Rachel Einwohner and Daniel J. Myers, editors. University of Minnesota Press.

    Dugan, Kimberly and Margaret Letterman. 2008. “Student Appraisal of Collaborative Teaching.” College Teaching. Winter, Vol. 56:11-15. DOI: 10.3200/CTCH.56.1.11-16.