University of Wisconsin, Madison: MA, Sociology, in progress expected June 2010
Committee: Michael Mayerfeld Bell (Chair), John DeLamater, Mustafa Emirbayer

University of Texas, Austin: BA Humanities and Sociology, 2008
-- Humanities Focus: Sexuality Social Movements 
-- Honors thesis: Staying-in Stories: Selective Outness in Young Gay Males

Publications

Orne, Jason. "'You will always have to 'out' yourself': Reconsidering Coming Out through Selective Outness" to be submitted to Gender & Society. 

Orne, Jason. "The Shifting Use of Sexual Identity Labels" in progress.

Gathman, E.H C. and J. Orne. "Social Networking Websites' Construction of Participants' views of News and Not-News." To be submitted to American Sociological Review. 

Orne, J and D. Seal. "Queering the Down-low: Safer-sex practices and Identity Management." To be submitted to Social Psychology Quarterly.

Teaching Experience

Interdisciplinary Sexuality Seminar, Madison WI, "Fluidity or Contextuality? The Use of Multiple Labels by Queer People", 2009

Social Psychology and Micro-sociology Research Cluster, Madison WI. "Untangling Outness", 2009

33rd Wisconsin Women's Studies & 4th LGBTQ Conference, Madison, WI. "Creating an Oral History Archive, Madison's LGBT Community 1960s-Present", 2009 (panel presentation)

Feminist Research Colloquium, Madison, WI. "Selective Outness and Social Distance" 2009

Emerging Scholarship in Women's and Gender Studies Conference, Austin, TX. "Social Distance: Gay Men and Coming Out." 2008

Humanities Colloquium, Austin, TX. "Staying-in Stories: Selective Outness in Young Gay Men" 2008

Departmental Small Research Grant, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2009
-- $200

Dean's Distinguished Graduate, University of Texas-Austin, 2008 
-- One of 10 graduates selected out of the class of 2008

Rapaport-King Thesis Scholarship, University of Texas-Austin, 2007

Young People For Senior Fellow, People for the American Way, 2006

Young People For Fellow, People for the American Way, 2005

August Kunz Memorial Scholarship, University of Texas-Austin, 2004

"The Social Construction of Sexual Identity" for Human Sexuality, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2009

"The Diversity of Coming Out Experiences" for Intro to LGBT Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2009

Volunteer Interviewer, LGBT Madison Oral History Project, UW-Madison's Oral History Program, 2008-2009

Coordinator/Member, Social Psychology and Micro-sociology Research Cluster, University of Wisconsin-Madison,  2008-2009

Member, Interdisciplinary Sexuality Seminar, UW-Madison/Medical College of Wisconsin's Center for Aids Intervention Research-Milwaukee, 2009

Member, Feminist Research Colloquium, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2008-2009

Member, LGBTQ/Sexualities Research Cluster, University of Texas-Austin, 2007-2008

"Learning from One Another: Focusing on Pedagogical Needs and Strategies in the Development of LGBTQ Courses and Course Content," UW-Parkside, 2009

Co-founding Assistant Director, Director, Advisor -- StandOut 2004-2008

Founder/Organizer, Student Action Summit, 2005, 2007

Board Member, Co-founder -- Campus Alliance Against Inequality 2005

American Sociological Association
Sections -- Sexualities; Sex and Gender; Racial and Ethnic Minorities

Sociologists for Women in Society

Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality