MICHELLE MARZULLO
Michelle
Marzullo is currently pursing a PhD in Anthropology concentrating in Race,
Gender, and Social Justice at American University in Washington, DC, USA.
She holds a Master’s degree in Human Sexuality Studies from San Francisco
State University. Michelle’s work at San Francisco State consisted of
the first systematic exploration of a Gay-Straight Alliance high school
club from the point of view of youth.
A professional researcher for eight years, Michelle has worked on a variety
of projects in the areas of HIV/AIDS drug effectiveness, reproduction
and environmental toxicity, and has participated in numerous policy and
program evaluations.
Her current research interests are in the arenas of sexuality, gender,
race/ethnicity, kinship systems, queer diaspora, family/health policy,
and programming aimed at educating around issues of race/ethnicity, sexuality
and HIV/STDs. Michelle’s utilizes a mix of research methods including
quantitative and qualitative analysis techniques, textual and semiotic
analysis, and program evaluation. She is most recently exploring how to
integrate documentary film making into her research projects to expand
the accessibility of research.
Ms. Marzullo’s dissertation will focus on how marriage ideologies in the
United States have changed over time. She will integrate descriptive demographic
shifts in local marriage practices and reproduction to changing ideas
about family and the economy since the early 1970s in two localities of
the United States. This research will place the question of marriage in
the United States into an integrative framework examining the in-betweeness
of the received social categories “kinship,” “family,” “sexuality,” and
“citizenship.”
Michelle is currently a Point Foundation Scholar and was a past recipient
of the Carlos Enrique Cisneros Scholarship for LGBT students of distinction
attending American University, Genentech’s Out & Equal Scholarship, and
the Grant Larsen Fellowship.
