Kay Hales

Bingham Postdoctoral Scholar

Academic History

  • PhD, Political Science, University of Kentucky
  • Graduate Certificate, Gender & Women’s Studies, University of Kentucky
  • MA, Political Science, University of Kentucky
  • BA, Political Science & History, Louisiana Tech University

Awards and Honors

  • 2024. Office for Policy Studies on Violence Against Women Graduate Fellowship.University of Kentucky, College of Arts and Sciences
  • 2024. Crum Emerging Scholar in American Politics. University of Kentucky, Department of Political Science.
  • 2024. Ken Griffin Graduate Research Fund. University of Kentucky, Department of PoliticalScience.
  • 2024. Coleman, Gorman, and Miller Graduate Summer Fellowship. University ofKentucky, Department of Political Science.
  • 2024. Endowed Doctoral Research and Travel Fund. University of Kentucky, Department of Political Science.
  • 2023. Coleman, Gorman, and Miller Graduate Summer Fellowship. University ofKentucky, Department of Political Science.
  • 2023. Endowed Doctoral Research and Travel Fund. University of Kentucky, Department of Political Science.
  • 2022. Endowed Doctoral Research and Travel Fund. University of Kentucky, Department of Political Science.
  • 2020-2023. Emerging Scholar Research Fund. University of Kentucky, Department of Political Science

Recent Publications

Riggle, E.D.B., Z. Clements, K. Hales and P. Galup, “Contextualizing Personal Pronoun Use in the LGBTQ Community: They, She, He,” Psychology of Sexual Orientation and Gender Diversity, forthcoming, 2025.

Hales, K., “A Qualitative Approach to Understanding LGBT People’s Sense of Linked Fate,” Sexuality Research and Social Policy, forthcoming, 2025.

Hales, K. and E.D. Riggle, “One LGBT Community or Many? Linked Fate in LGBT People,” Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy, vol. 25, no. 2, e70024, 2025.

Courses Taught at Transy

  • LGBTQ+ Politics

Professional Memberships

  • American Political Science Association LGBTQ Caucus
  • American Political Science Association
  • Southern Political Science Association
  • Midwest Political Science Association
  • Kentucky Political Science Association

Areas of Specialization

  • LGBTQ+ politics, political psychology, political sociology, research methods