Meredith Chivers
Meredith Chivers is an assistant professor and Director of the Sexuality & Gender Laboratory in the Psychology Department at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. She received her Ph.D. in clinical psychology from Northwestern University in 2003 and, from 2004 to 2009, completed post-doctoral research training at the University of Toronto’s Centre for Addiction and Mental Health. She joined the Psychology faculty at Queen’s University in the spring of 2009 as a Queen’s National Scholar, an award aimed at recruiting junior faculty who demonstrate outstanding achievement in research and scholarship. Her groundbreaking program of research featured in The New York Times Magazine cover story What Women Want (2009), examines gender differences in sexual psychophysiology and sexual orientation, with a focus on women’s sexuality.