Research Interests
Race and Ethnicity, Gender and Sexuality, Colorism, Qualitative Methodology, Health Disparities
Publications
Montemurro, Beth and Elizabeth Hughes. 2024. Erotic capital and erotic dividends. Sexualities, 28(3), 1139-1153.
Nieri, Tanya and Elizabeth Hughes. 2023. Zumba Instructor Strategies: Constraining or Liberating for Women Participants? Leisure Sciences, 1-18.
Hughes, Elizabeth. 2021. “I’m supposed to be thick”: Managing body image anxieties among Black American women. Journal of Black Studies, 52(3), 310-330.
Kwon, Ronald and Elizabeth Hughes. 2018. Multiculturalist policies in an age of immigration: Do multiculturalist policies influence negative immigrant attitudes towards homosexuality? Ethnicities, 18(5), 655-691
Vito, Christopher, Amanda Admire, and Elizabeth Hughes. 2017. Masculinity, aggrieved entitlement, and violence: Considering the Isla Vista Mass Shooting. NORMA: International Journal of Masculinity Studies. http://dx.doi.org/ 10.1080/18902138.2017.1390658.
Nieri, Tanya, and Elizabeth Hughes. 2016. All about having fun: Women’s experience of Zumba fitness. Sociology of Sport Journal, 32(2): 135-145.
Education
Ph D, Sociology, University of California, Riverside
BA, Criminal Justice , Gonzaga University