Deborah Tolman

Dr. Deborah Tolman (she/her/hers) is a Professor of Women and Gender Studies at Hunter College and a Professor of Critical Social Psychology at The CUNY Graduate Center. With over thirty years of research experience, Dr. Tolman is a leading scholar on adolescent sexuality and a qualitative methodologist, practitioner, and educator.

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She was a key member of the team that developed the Listening Guide Method at Harvard University. Dr. Tolman has authored and edited nine books and journal special issues, including Dilemmas of Desire: Teenage Girls Talk about Sexuality (2002/2005), which received the Association for Women in Psychology Book Award; From Subjects to Subjectivities (2002, co-edited with Mary Brydon-Miller); and the two-volume American Psychological Association Handbook on Sexuality (2015, co-edited with Lisa Diamond), recognized as "essential reading" by Choice and awarded the APA Division 44 Book Award. In addition, she has published over 80 peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters.

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Dr. Tolman is currently working on her forthcoming book, Pleasures, Pitfalls, and Possibilities: Listening to Adolescent Girls Talk about Sexuality and Relationships.