

Her current research focuses on hookup culture during the Covid-19 pandemic. Her latest book, American Hookup: The New Culture of Sex on Campus, situates collegiate hookup culture within the history of sexuality, the evolution of higher education, and the unfinished feminist revolution.


This January, Wade became a full-time resident of the city as a triply appointed associate professor in the School of Liberal Arts Department of Sociology and the Gender and Sexuality Studies Program, and the Newcomb Institute. For the past six years, Lisa Wade has spent her summers researching and writing in New Orleans.
