Kim Felsenthal

Dr. Felsenthal’s research combines her two loves—psychology and design—by looking at how people use place to develop their identities. Specifically, she focuses on gender identity and sexuality and the home. She has taught a wide variety of classes in Social Sciences and Humanities. Prior to working at Berkeley, she worked in architecture, planning and engineering for both public and private entities.

Education

BA, State University of New York, Buffalo

MUP, Hunter College, City University of New York

PhD, The Graduate Center, City University of New York

Presentations, Publications, Research

• Senior Identities at home. In review
• Creating the Queendom: A Lens on Transy House. Home Cultures, Vol. 6, No. 3., pp 243-260. (2009)
• Book Review for Analysis of Social Issues and Public Policy: Navigating Crime, Blackwell Publishing. (2008)
• Queer Space conference proceedings: Finding Identity in a Collective Transcape: A look inside Transy House. (2007)
• Living In Between, Psychology of Prejudice and Discrimination Volume 3: Gender and Sexual Orientation, J. L. Chin ed. Praeger Press Inc. (2004)

Conferences

• Gender, Sexuality, and Justice Conference
• Paper presentation: Being a Boy in This #MeToo World: How boys can develop the skills to appropriately navigate their social worlds.
• Youth Summit: Expert moderator for Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender forum
• Finding Royalty through TRANSparency: Moderated break-out group: Psychology of the Trans Experience
• Canadian Association of Geographers
• Paper presentation: The Home: A psycho-spatial tool to empower, validate, and express the identities of aging men and women living alone
• Aging and Society
• Paper presentation: The Home: A socio-spatial identity tool for empowerment, validation, and expression
• Gender and Difference
• Paper presentation: The older woman’s home and the fortification of her identity