Justin Garcia | Medical Humanities Lecture
Medical Humanities Lecture sponsored by Daniel Shin (LAS ’91). Talk: “The Kinsey Institute & the State of Sex Research” For almost eighty years, the Kinsey Institute at Indiana University has served as the leading voice and a trusted home for both scientific research and historical preservation on human sexuality and relationships, for scholars and experts from all over the world.
When the then-named Institute for Sex Research was founded in 1947, the cultural climate in the United States was marked by restrictive legal and social norms around relationships and sexuality. This talk will highlight the Kinsey Institute’s founding and multi-disciplinary history, continued cultural impact, current research program, and reflect on the ways in which today’s social and political climate presents new challenges for multi-disciplinary sex research.
About the Speaker Dr. Justin R. Garcia is an evolutionary biologist and sex researcher. He is executive director and senior scientist at the Kinsey Institute, Ruth N. Halls Professor in the College of Arts and Sciences, and adjunct professor of medicine at Indiana University, Bloomington.
He also serves as chief scientific advisor for dating company Match, providing expertise to the annual Singles in America study. Dr. Garcia’s research has been featured in outlets like the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, TIME, Cosmopolitan and Vanity Fair.
His newest book is titled The Intimate Animal: The Science of Sex, Fidelity, and Why We Live and Die for Love.