Selected Publications
Coston, L.G. (2018) Understanding Characteristics of Victims and Perpetrators of Anti-LGBT Hate Crimes. Violence and Victims. 33(3), 453-471. https://doi.org/10.1891/0886-6708.VV-D-17-00090
(Revise and Resubmit) LGBT Rights and their Impact on Anti-LGB Hate Crimes.
(Revise and Resubmit) Help-Seeking Behaviors of Victims of Anti-LGBT Hate Crimes.
With Rachel Kalish and Michael Kimmel (2015). Scripts of Masculinity. In International Encyclopedia of Social and Behavioral Sciences 2nd Edition. Oxford, UK, Elsevier.
Edited with Michael Kimmel and the Stony Brook Sexualities Research Group (2014). Sexualities: Identities, Behaviors, and Society 2nd Edition. New York, New York, Oxford University Press.
(2014) Aversion Therapy. In Cultural Encyclopedia of the Penis. Lanham, MD, Altamira Press.
(2014) Eugenics. In Cultural Encyclopedia of the Penis. Lanham, MD, Altamira Press.
Selected Presentations
(2018) Public Policy Forum: The Future of Transdgender and Non-Binary People. Panelist at Virginia Commonwealth University. Richmond, VA.
(2017) Teaching Inequality and Navigating White Privilege. Workshop at the 2017 NWSA Annual Conference: 40 Years After Combahee: Feminist Scholars and Activists Engage the Movement for Black Lives. Baltimore, MD.
(2016) LGBT Civil Rights and their Impact on Anti-LGB Hate Crimes. Presentation at the American Sociological Association Annual Conference, Seattle, WA.
(2015) Understanding Victims and Perpetrators of Anti-LGBT Hate Crimes. Presentation at the American Sociological Association Annual Conference, Chicago, IL.
(2015) Accounting for Anti-LGBT Hate Violence. Presentation at the Equality Research to Action Conference, Dearborn, MI.
(2015) Theorizing Anti-LGBT Hate Crimes. Presentation at the Eastern Sociological Society Annual Conference, New York, NY.
(2014) Strategies of Resistance: Preventing Violence Against Young Transgender Women of Color. Presentation at the American Sociological Association Annual Conference, San Francisco, CA.
(2013) “We’re Not Your Drag Bar Gays”: Masculinity in the Gay Bar Scene. Presentation at the American Sociological Association Annual Conference, New York, NY.
(2013) Queering Community: Sameness and Difference in NYC’s Gay Sports Bars. Presentation at the 9th Annual Stony Brook University Graduate Student Ethnography Conference, New York, NY.
Grants and Fellowships
Wikipedia Fellow (Midterm Election Cohort)
American Sociological Association
Translational Research Fellow
L. Douglas Wilder School of Government and Public Affairs
Dr. W. Burghardt Turner Dissertation Fellowship
Dissertation Fellowship for Underrepresented Graduate Students
Turner Summer Research Grant
Competitive Grant Based on Academic Rigor of Project
Equality Research Center’s Equality Knowledge Project Grant
Competitive Grant Funding Innovative Research on LGBTQ Issues