Pinsky, D. (2023). Mediated risk: A qualitative exploration of students’ experiences flirting online. Sexualities, 0(0).

Threats to Accessing information about sexuality: Examining the Most Frequently Challenged Books in the USA from 2011-2021
Article, Sex Education: Sexuality, Society, and Learning 1-14.
Co-Authored with Emily Brenner

Digitally Mediated Communication and School-Based Sex Education in the USA
Article, Sex Education: Sexuality, Society, and Learning

Doing Gender Online through Flirtation: Digitally Mediated Romantic Interactions among College Students
Article, Reset: Social Science Research on the Internet

“The Sustained Snapshot: Incidental Ethnographic Encounters in Qualitative Interview Studies”
Article, Qualitative Research 15(3):281-295

“‘A World Turned Upside Down’: Emotional Labour and the Professional Dominatrix”
Article, Sexualities 18(4):438-458.
Co-Authored with Tania Levey

“A Constellation of Stigmas: Complicating Sex Work Stigma with the Case of the Professional Dominatrix”
Deviant Behavior 36(5):347-367
Co-Authored with Tania Levey

Jewish Feminists: Complex Identities and Activist Lives
Book, University of Illinois Press

Professor of Sociology. Program Director of Sociology. Program Director of Gender and Sexuality Studies.

Dr. Dina Pinsky's recent research explores the topic of sex education in relation to US approaches to discourses of sexuality and the curtailment of the rights of LGBTQ youth. She recently published articles analyzing digitally mediated flirtation, based on her ethnographic study of high school and college students. Dr. Pinsky's previous research has focused on sex work stigma, Jewish feminist activists, and ethnographic research methodologies. Her research has been published in journals such as Sexualities: Studies in Culture and Society; Sex Education: Sexuality, Society, and Learning; Qualitative Research; and Deviant Behavior.