Biography

Kathleen A. Bogle, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor of Sociology and Criminal Justice at La Salle University in Philadelphia. She received her master's degree in Criminal Justice from Saint Joseph's University in 1998 and her doctoral degree in Sociology from the University of Delaware in 2004. Her major areas of research interest include gender, sexual behavior and intimate relationships.

Her top-selling book, Hooking Up: Sex, Dating, and Relationships on Campus, was released by New York University Press in February 2008. The book release has engendered interviews and articles in, among others, Cosmopolitan, New York Times, Newsweek, and the Wall Street Journal. In addition, she has been an invited guest on various National Public Radio programs in Philadelphia and New York City and television news programs (ABC, CBS, FOX and MSNBC). She has also served as an invited keynote speaker at many universities nationwide.

Dr. Bogle is also heavily involved in other research on the subject of hooking up and dating. In November 2007, she published a paper on this topic in Sociology Compass. Dr. Bogle is also interested in the study of crime, particularly violence against women. She has co-authored a paper on this topic ("Exploring the Connection between Pornography and Sexual Violence"), which appeared in Violence & Victims.

Prior to joining La Salle, she was a Visiting Assistant Professor of Sociology and Criminal Justice at Saint Joseph's University, where she received the Faculty Merit Award for Teaching.