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The University of Connecticut
Family Studies Building - Unit 2058
Storrs, CT 06269
Tel : 860-486-4177
E-mail: marysol.asencio@uconn.edu
Area of Speciality:
Dr. Asencio's specialities include gender; sexuality; migration; race/ethnicity; urban and community health; and social inequities/human rights.
Biographical Note:
Dr. Marysol Asencio is an Associate Professor of Human Development and Family Studies and Puerto Rican and Latino Studies at UConn. She is also the Director for the Latina/o Sexualities Research Project funded by a two-year grant by the Ford Foundation. Prior to joining the faculty of the University of Connecticut , she was a faculty member and co-Director of the Health Promotion Disease Prevention track at the Columbia School of Public Health. She received her doctoral degree from Columbia University in 1994 in Sociomedical Sciences, an interdisciplinary and-multidisciplinary program drawing primarily from public health, sociology, anthropology, psychology and history to understand health related issues. Her dissertation was awarded with distinction and she later won the Maria Benton Prize for outstanding dissertation in her field of study. She has been involved professionally in Latina/o sexuality and reproductive issues as a researcher, teacher, and community educator/advocate for the last 20 years. Her research and community activities have been primarily with Caribbean populations in the Northeast but particularly among Puerto Ricans residing in New York City and Connecticut . She has served on several national boards and executive committees and has been the recipient of several awards and distinctions. She was recently a Social Science Research Council (SSRC)-Sexuality Research Fellow. She is working on her second book based on her current research on Puerto Rican Migration, Sexualities, Space, and Identities as well as several articles on related topics. She is also working on an edited volume of commissioned works on Latina/o sexualities research. Over the last 10 years, she has received several research and training/programmatic grants to understand and serve the needs of minority populations in the United States .
Selected Publications:
Asencio, Marysol . 2002. Sex and Sexuality among New York's Puerto Rican Youth . Colorado : Lynne Rienner Publishers.
Articles:
Asencio, Marysol and Karen Ripoll Nunez (2006). Feminism and Gender Equity in a Low-Income Puerto Rican Stateside Community: From Academics to Practice. Journal of Guidance and Counseling (special issue on diversity, social justice and counseling).
Young, Rebecca M, Samuel R. Friedman, Patricia Case, Marysol W. Asencio and Michael Clatts. 2000. Women Injection Drug Users Who Have Sex With Women Exhibit Increased HIV Infection and Risk Behaviors. Journal of Drug Issues 30 (3):499-524.
Asencio, Marysol W. 1999. Machos and Sluts: Gender, Sexuality and Violence Among A Cohort of Puerto Rican Adolescents. Medical Anthropology Quarterly 13 (1): 107-126.
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