Heidi Lyons

Associate Professor of Sociology and Advisor
520A Varner
(248) 370-2684
[email protected]

Curriculum Vitae

Research Interests
Sexuality, Sexual Health, Family Demography, Research Methods, Intimate Relationships

Selected Publications

Lyons, Heidi A., David F Warner, and Terri L Orbuch. 2024. "Sexual Expression and Subsequent Marital Quality Among Partnered Older Adults." Archives of Sexual Behavior:1-15.

Sanders, George, and Heidi A. Lyons. 2022. "The sagacity of the surround: the casual sex-assemblages of young adults." Sexualities 25(4):424-44.

Lyons, Heidi A., and George Sanders. 2021. "Bridging hinges: The attitudes, beliefs, and values of emerging adults’ sexualities.” In E. M. Morgan & M. H. M. van Dulmen (Eds.), Sexuality in emerging adulthood (pp. 79–98). Oxford University Press. 

Warner, David, and Heidi Lyons. 2020. "Older married couples’ sexual expression: A dyadic latent class analysis." Journal of Social and Personal Relationships 37(12):3139-59.

Lyons, Heidi A 2017. "Heterosexual Casual Sex and STI Diagnosis: A Latent Class Analysis." International Journal of Sexual Health 29(1):32-47.

Lyons, Heidi A., Wendy D. Manning, Monica A. Longmore, and Peggy C. Giordano. 2015. "Gender and casual sexual activity from adolescence to emerging adulthood: Social and life course correlates." Journal of Sex Research 52(5):543-57.

Lyons, Heidi A. 2015. "Subjective adult identity and casual sexual behavior." Advances in Life Course Research 26:1-10.

Lyons, Heidi, and Scott Smith. 2014. "Religiosity and the Transition to Nonmarital Parity." Sexuality Research & Social Policy 11(2):163-75.

Burgess-Proctor, Amanda, Graham Cassano, Dennis J Condron, Heidi A Lyons, and George Sanders. 2014. "A collective effort to improve sociology students’ writing skills." Teaching Sociology 42(2):130-39.

Lyons, Heidi A., Wendy D. Manning, Peggy C. Giordano, and Monica A. Longmore. 2013. "Predictors of Heterosexual Casual Sex Among Young Adults." Archives of Sexual Behavior 42(4):585-93.

Lyons, Heidi A., Peggy C. Giordano, Wendy D. Manning, and Monica A. Longmore. 2011. "Identity, peer relationships, and adolescent girls' sexual behavior: An exploration of the contemporary double standard." Journal of Sex Research 48(5):437-49.

            *Winner of the Hugo G Beigel Award by SSSS for the outstanding report published that year in JSR.

Manning, Wendy D., Deanna Trella, Heidi A. Lyons, and Nola Cora Du Toit. 2010. "Marriageable Women: A Focus on Participants in a Community Healthy Marriage Program." Family Relations 59(1):87-102.

Courses Taught

SOC 1000 Introduction to Sociology
SOC 2020 Social Statistics with Computer Applications
SOC 3110/WGS 3110 Human Sexuality
SOC 3200/WGS 3200 Population and Society
SOC 3400/WGS 3400 Sociology of the Family

SOC 4970 Applying the Sociological Imagination