Queer Lecture Series: Women and Alcohol

The presentation will focus on research on women and alcohol with an emphasis on sexual minority women. We’ll review the reasons women drink, how women’s consumption varies, what’s considered a reasonable amount of alcohol to consume, what factors can lead to problem drinking, how excessive drinking can create problems, protective factors, treatment access and outcomes for those who need it, how drinking women are sometimes harshly judged, and how to have successful drinking experiences.

Presented by Christine Flynn Saulnier, Department of Social Work

Bio: After more than three decades in the academy, half of that time at CSI, Christine Flynn Saulnier, MSW, PhD, is about to retire. At CSI, she has served as Dean, Special Assistant to the Provost for Research Compliance, Faculty Athletic Representative, and Professor. For the past decade, she served as Chair of the Department of Social Work, which she was instrumental in creating. For eight years of that decade, she has been reviewing more than 10,000 peer-reviewed journal articles on women and alcohol, with the assistance of many students. With a few chapters written, she hopes to complete a book on this project within the year, as her first retirement project.

For more information, contact Jeremiah.Jurkiewicz@csi.cuny.edu or 718.982.3091