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Kaity Ann Prieto
University Innovation Alliance Fellow
The Ohio State University
Education/Degree:
1 Higher Education (The Ohio State University)
About
Kaity Prieto, PhD is the university innovation alliance fellow for The Ohio State University. She conducts interdisciplinary, qualitative student success research. Kaity's research agenda centers the lived experiences of marginalized students by challenging deficit perspectives, emphasizing structural barriers to success, and highlighting student resistance. She has written and presented on the experiences of LGBTQ+ students, with a focus on bisexual, pansexual, and fluid student communities. Her most recent research explores bisexual+ student identity negotiation. She earned her Bachelor of Arts in a self-designed honors major and Master of Arts in higher education and student affairs, both from NYU, and her PhD in educational studies with a concentration in higher education and student affairs from Ohio State.
Current Work
Dr. Prieto's research explores the experiences of bisexual+ students, both undergrads and grads. Currently, her focus is on identity negotiation, or the ways people play up or tone down facets of their identity. She uses a queer theoretical approach which sensitizes her work to questions of power and systems of oppression. This includes heteronormativity, or the belief that only heterosexuality is acceptable. Because of prejudices stemming from this belief, bi+ people often feel compelled to keep their sexual identity hidden, especially in academic and professional environments. Dr. Prieto's research offers suggestions for improving higher education practice for bi+ students, and for members of the LGBTQ+ community more broadly.
Research Area Keyword(s)
bisexuality, LGBTQ+ students, Queer theory