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Social Science PRIDE!

At the College of Social Science, we take PRIDE in all of our students, faculty and staff! Learn more about the work our College is doing to transform the LGBTQ+ experience.


Pride Faculty Features

Kaston Anderson-Carpenter

Christina DeJong

Ning Hsieh

Anne Hughes

Cathy Liu

Jae Puckett

Dierdre Shires

stef shuster


Pride Research Features

Doctors treating trans youth grapple with uncertainty, lack of training

Trans youth are coming out and living in their gender much earlier than older generations

Ask the expert: Recognizing and respecting trans identities

MSU social scientists developing innovative, effective research methods for studying experiences of transgender people

MSU sociologists explore the effects of COVID-19 on sexual and gender minorities of color

Understanding mental health in the transgender community, especially in the midst of a pandemic

MSU sociologists discover “loneliness gap” for older LGB Americans in midst of COVID-19 isolation

LGBT health improves with community

Toxic masculinity is unsafe... for men.

MSU social scientist helping to connect young people living with HIV to care

MSU social scientist uncovers patterns of opioid misuse among bisexual female veterans, others

Social Science researcher finds link between sexual minorities and heightened diabetes risk

Past Diversity Features

  • Disability Independence Day 2020
  • Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition
  • Hispanic Heritage Month
  • Social Science PRIDE!
  • LGBT History Month
  • National Native American Heritage Month
  • Universal Human Rights Month
  • International Holocaust Remembrance Day
  • Black History Month
  • Women’s History Month
  • Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition
  • Arab American Heritage Month
  • Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month
  • World Refugee Day
  • Disability Independence Day 2021
  • National Hispanic Heritage Month 2021
  • LGBT History Month 2021
  • National Native American Heritage Month 2021
  • Universal Human Rights Month 2021
  • International Holocaust Remembrance Day 2022
  • Black History Month 2022
  • Women’s History Month 2022
  • Arab American Heritage Month 2022
  • Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month 2022
  • Juneteenth 2022
  • Disability Independence Day 2022

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