Tony D'Augelli

Anthony R. D’Augelli, Ph.D. is the Associate Dean for Undergraduate Programs and Outreach in the College of Health and Human Development at Penn State University and  Professor of Human Development in the Department of Human Development and Family Studies. He is a community-clinical psychologist whose primary interest has been research and writing on sexual orientation and human development, with a special focus on the experiences of young lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people. He is the author of over 100 reports in professional journals. He has co-edited four books on current research on lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender lives, including the Handbook of Psychology and Sexual Orientation (Oxford University Press, 2013). He is also co-author of The Challenges of Being a Rural Gay Man: Coping with Stigma, recently published by Routledge.

He is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association and has received several awards, including the Scientific Contribution Award and the Outstanding Achievement Award from the Society for the Psychological Study of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Issues of the American Psychological Association. In the more than two decades that he has been working on these concerns, he has conducted research projects on LGBT youth, older LGBT adults, and gay men living in rural communities. His research has been funded by the National Institute of Mental Health.