Dr. Laura B. Citrin has a BA in Political Science from the University of California - Berkeley (1992) and a BS in Psychology from the University of Washington - Seattle (1996). Both her MA and PhD degrees are from the University of Michigan (the MA in Social Psychology in 2000, and the PhD in Social Psychology and Women’s Studies in 2004). Her areas of expertise include the social psychology of gender; emotions (particularly moralizing ones); and cultural ideologies about the body. The title of her dissertation is "Disgust and ‘Normal’ Corporeality: How Cultural Ideologies About Gender, Race, and Class are Inscribed on the Body." She holds a joint appointment in Sociology and Women’s Studies.