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Academic Appointments
2024-current, Department Chair, Trinity University
2019-current, Professor of Sociology and Anthropology, Trinity University
2012-2019, Associate Professor of Sociology and Anthropology, Trinity University
2006-2012, Assistant Professor of Sociology and Anthropology, Trinity University
1998-1999, Amherst-Doshisha Fellow, Doshisha University, Kyoto, Japan
Education
2006, University of Michigan, PhD, Sociology (Dissertation: More Than Adding a T: Transgender Inclusion in Michigan Nondiscrimination Ordinances )
1998, Amherst College, BA, Sociology, summa cum laude
Selective Publications & Awards
Books:
Compton, D'Lane R., and Amy L. Stone, eds. Outskirts: Queer Experiences on the Fringe. NYU Press, 2024.
Stone, Amy L. Queer Carnival: Festivals and Mardi Gras in the South. NYU Press, 2022.
Stone, Amy L. Cornyation: San Antonio's outrageous fiesta tradition. Trinity University Press, 2017.
Stone, Amy L., and Jaime Cantrell, eds. Out of the closet, into the archives: Researching sexual histories. SUNY Press, 2015.
Stone, Amy L. Gay rights at the ballot box. U of Minnesota Press, 2012.
Selected Journal Articles:
Alexander, Katherine, Brandon Andrew Robinson, and Amy L. Stone. "Unionized Against Cisnormativity: How Siblings of Transgender Youth Divest from Family Gender Norms." Gender & Society 39, no. 5 (2025).
Miller, Anna, Amy L. Stone, Otis McCandless-Chapman, Javania Michelle Webb, and Brandon Andrew Robinson. "Contracting and stretching kinship: family relations and queer youth’s non-linear moving patterns in Texas and California." Gender, Place and Culture-A Journal of Feminist Geography 33, no. 2 (2026): 218-236.
McCandless-Chapman, Otis, Katherine Alexander**, Amy L. Stone, Katherine Willcockson, Ryann Moos, and Brandon Andrew Robinson. "When Your Sibling is Trans Too: How LGBTQ Siblings Help LGBTQ Youth Navigate Cisnormativity and Heteronormativity in the Family." Journal of Homosexuality 72, no. 11 (2025): 2221-2243. https://doi.org/10.1080/00918369.2024.2420078
Robinson, Brandon Andrew, and Amy L. Stone. "Trans family systems framework: Theorizing families' gender investments and divestments in cisnormativity." Journal of Marriage and Family 86, no. 5 (2024): 1205-1227. https://doi.org/10.1111/jomf.12988
Stone, Amy L., Elizabeth Nimmons, and Robert Salcido Jr. "Refusing Gender: Intimate (Mis) Recognition of Gender Identity and Its Relation to Family Instabilities." Gender & Society 38, no. 5 (2024): 788-815.
Robinson, Brandon Andrew, Fei Mu, Javania Michelle Webb, and Amy L. Stone. "Intersectional Social Support: Gender, Race, and LGBTQ Youth Friendships." Society & Mental Health (2024): 21568693241266960.
Stone, Amy L., and Alexandra Gallin-Parisi. "“I Had Time to Do My Research, Had Time to Think and Educate Myself”: Using Information Work for Nonbinary and Genderfluid Identity Self-Recognition during COVID-19 Isolation." Socius 10 (2024): 23780231241266461.
McCandless‐Chapman, Otis, Abigail Ottaway, Amy L. Stone, and Brandon Andrew Robinson. "Latinx LGBTQ+ youth and grandparents: Intergenerational solidarity, precarious familismo, and cisnormativity." Journal of Marriage and Family 86, no. 3 (2024): 614-632.
Stone, Amy L., and Alexandra Gallin-Parisi. "What Happens when Gender Accountability is Reduced? The Experiences of Nonbinary and Genderfluid People During the COVID-19 Pandemic." Gender & Society (2024): 08912432241244805.
Robinson, Brandon Andrew, Amy L. Stone, and Javania Michelle Webb. "Aunties, aunts, and Tías: The forgotten othermother supporting and housing LGBTQ youth." Socius 9 (2023): 23780231231217827.
Stone, Amy L. "Frame variation in child protectionist claims: Constructions of gay men and transgender women as strangers." Social Forces 97, no. 3 (2019): 1155-1176.
Honors and Awards
2026-2029, Murchison Term Professorship, Trinity University
2026, President’s Award for Exceptional Service to Students
2024, Leadership Icon Award, Pride Center San Antonio
2023, Danny J. Anderson Faculty Prize for Student Research
2021, Trinity Award for University, Professional, and Community Service
2020, Interdisciplinary Research Leaders Community Research Impact Award
2020, Trinity University Best of the Best Award
2017, Best Local Author, San Antonio Current
2012, Trinity Junior Faculty Award for Distinguished Teaching and Research
2007-2009, Tom and Mary Turner Junior Faculty Fellowship, Trinity University
2006, Ginsberg Center Award for Service Learning and Social Change
External Grants
2024-2029, National Institute of Health R01 (co-I with PI Phillip Schnarrs)
2023-2025, National Science Foundation Sociology grant (with Robinson, UCR)
2022-2025, National Science Foundation Sociology grant (with Brandon Robinson, UCR)
2022-2025, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Community Research for Health Equity (with Robert Salcido, Jr, Pride Center San Antonio)
2020-2021, Fund for the Advancement of the Discipline, American Sociological Association
2020, Interdisciplinary Research Leaders Health Equity Project Fund
2019-2021, Mellon Foundation Undergraduate Research Fellowship
2019-2020, Community Engagement Small Project Grant, Institute for Integration of Medicine and Science
2017-2020, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Interdisciplinary Research Team
2015-2016, National Geographic Society Committee for Research and Exploration
2015-2016, Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues Grants-in-Aid
2013-2014, Fund for the Advancement of the Discipline, American Sociological Association
2008, Phil Zwickler Memorial Research Grant, Cornell University
2008-2009, Sydney S. Spivack Community Action Research Award, ASA
2007-2008, Community Based Network Initiative Grant, Princeton University