Sarah Lapean

Sarah Lapean is a third year PhD student in the joint program of Psychology and Women's & Gender Studies. She works with Dr. Sara McClelland in the Progress Lab. She currently studies the role of moral exclusion in legislating sex education in the United States. 

She earned her BA in English and psychology from Amherst College, where she conducted two honors thesis projects: an exploration of the representations of sexual assault in Victorian literature for White female characters and Black female characters, and an examination of how prejudice is exhibited against non-normative sexual practices through emotions and perceptions of threat.