Draft:Meredith G. F. Worthen

Meredith G. F. Worthen is a Professor of Sociology and Sexualities/LGBTQ Studies scholar at the University of Oklahoma. She is the author of Queers, Bis, and Straight Lies: An Intersectional Examination of LGBTQ Stigma and Sexual Deviance and Society: A sociological examination.

Early life and education
Worthen was raised in Dallas, Texas. She attended the University of Texas for her B.A., M.A., and Ph.D., and completed her Ph.D. in Sociology in 2009.

Career
In 2009, Worthen became an Assistant Professor at the University of Oklahoma, and then received tenure in 2014. She was promoted to full professor in 2019.

Her research focus includes the study of stigma, as well as deviance, feminist criminology, sexualities, and LGBTQ identities.

In 2016, she published the textbook Sexual Deviance and Society: A sociological examination.

In her first empirical book, Queers, Bis, and Straight Lies: An Intersectional Examination of LGBTQ Stigma, published in 2020, Worthen developed Norm-Centered Stigma Theory (NCST) as part of a sociological examination of stigma.

After moving to Oklahoma, Worthen founded The Welcoming Project in 2011, which became a nonprofit organization after initially being developed to promote the display of welcoming messages to people in the LGBTQ community at businesses and organizations, including on websites. In 2018, she created the Instagram account Me Too Meredith, to facilitate anonymous reporting of sexual harassment and assault.

Books

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Personal life
Worthen is married to her long-time partner and they have a daughter.