J.L. Stewart
Post-Doctoral Fellow
Pronouns: she/her/hers
Email address: jls4002@med.cornell.edu
Ph.D. in Applied Social and Community Psychology from North Carolina State University
B.F.A. in Fine Arts from the University of Delaware
J began collaborating with our team as a postdoctoral affiliate during the summer of 2020 and officially joined the team as a postdoctoral fellow in September 2021. She is currently a fellow in the T32 Cornell-Hunter Health Equity Research Fellowship, a partnership between the Division of General Internal Medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine and Hunter College of the City University of New York.
Her research interests generally surround multilevel determinants of sexual and reproductive health and well-being and, more recently, perinatal mental health. During her doctoral training at NCSU, her research was largely focused on the promotion of sexual and reproductive health and positive sexuality development among adolescents, especially societally marginalized adolescents. She gained extensive experience assisting with the adaptation, implementation, and evaluation of several iterations of a technology-based sexual health intervention for adolescents under the mentorship of Dr. Laura Widman. Additionally, as a research assistant with the University of North Carolina Center for AIDS Research, she worked to advance a psychometric database designed to promote interdisciplinary HIV research.
In her postdoctoral fellowship, she is currently working under the mentorship of Dr. Tyrel Starks to expand her work related to reproductive health to mental health during the perinatal period (pregnancy through one year postpartum). Specifically, she aims to develop a program of research geared toward the development of couples-focused interventions to bolster postpartum planning and preparation as a means to improve postpartum mental health. Pregnant people identify their relationship partners as their primary source of support; however, partners are rarely meaningfully engaged in perinatal care nor are they given the tools to effectively optimize their role as key support persons during this transitional and often disorienting time. Thus, J is currently conducting research to support the development of future couples-focused interventions to promote perinatal mental health.
Outside of research, J enjoys QT with her family, cooking, reading, being in nature, and listening to podcasts (especially Groceries) while walking her dog.
Select Publications:
Stewart, J. L., Kamke, K. Widman, L. & Hope, E. C. (2022). “They see sex as something that’s reproductive and not as something people do for fun”: Shortcomings in adolescent girls’ sexual socialization. Journal of Adolescent Research, 37(2), 250-279.
Stewart, J. L., Stults, C. B., & Ristuccia, A. (2021). Consensual non-monogamy relationship rules among young gay and bisexual men: A dyadic qualitative analysis. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 50(4), 1505-1520.
Stewart, J. L., Spivey, L. A., Widman, L., Choukas-Bradley, S., & Prinstein, M. J. (2019). Developmental patterns of sexual identity, romantic attraction, and sexual behavior among adolescents over three years. Journal of Adolescence, 77, 90-97.
Link to full list of publications
Pronouns: she/her/hers
Email address: jls4002@med.cornell.edu
Ph.D. in Applied Social and Community Psychology from North Carolina State University
B.F.A. in Fine Arts from the University of Delaware
J began collaborating with our team as a postdoctoral affiliate during the summer of 2020 and officially joined the team as a postdoctoral fellow in September 2021. She is currently a fellow in the T32 Cornell-Hunter Health Equity Research Fellowship, a partnership between the Division of General Internal Medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine and Hunter College of the City University of New York.
Her research interests generally surround multilevel determinants of sexual and reproductive health and well-being and, more recently, perinatal mental health. During her doctoral training at NCSU, her research was largely focused on the promotion of sexual and reproductive health and positive sexuality development among adolescents, especially societally marginalized adolescents. She gained extensive experience assisting with the adaptation, implementation, and evaluation of several iterations of a technology-based sexual health intervention for adolescents under the mentorship of Dr. Laura Widman. Additionally, as a research assistant with the University of North Carolina Center for AIDS Research, she worked to advance a psychometric database designed to promote interdisciplinary HIV research.
In her postdoctoral fellowship, she is currently working under the mentorship of Dr. Tyrel Starks to expand her work related to reproductive health to mental health during the perinatal period (pregnancy through one year postpartum). Specifically, she aims to develop a program of research geared toward the development of couples-focused interventions to bolster postpartum planning and preparation as a means to improve postpartum mental health. Pregnant people identify their relationship partners as their primary source of support; however, partners are rarely meaningfully engaged in perinatal care nor are they given the tools to effectively optimize their role as key support persons during this transitional and often disorienting time. Thus, J is currently conducting research to support the development of future couples-focused interventions to promote perinatal mental health.
Outside of research, J enjoys QT with her family, cooking, reading, being in nature, and listening to podcasts (especially Groceries) while walking her dog.
Select Publications:
Stewart, J. L., Kamke, K. Widman, L. & Hope, E. C. (2022). “They see sex as something that’s reproductive and not as something people do for fun”: Shortcomings in adolescent girls’ sexual socialization. Journal of Adolescent Research, 37(2), 250-279.
Stewart, J. L., Stults, C. B., & Ristuccia, A. (2021). Consensual non-monogamy relationship rules among young gay and bisexual men: A dyadic qualitative analysis. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 50(4), 1505-1520.
Stewart, J. L., Spivey, L. A., Widman, L., Choukas-Bradley, S., & Prinstein, M. J. (2019). Developmental patterns of sexual identity, romantic attraction, and sexual behavior among adolescents over three years. Journal of Adolescence, 77, 90-97.
Link to full list of publications