Jon is pursuing his PhD in Social-Personality Psychology at the CUNY Graduate Center as well as his MPH in Biostatistics at Hunter College. He started working at CHEST in the summer of 2008 as a research assistant. Prior to working at CHEST, Jon worked as a research assistant for several years with The Q&A Project, which deals with the experiences of young LGBT youth (coming out, victimization, mental health, sexual experiences, etc.), as well as the Laboratory for Personality, Psychopathology, and Psychotherapy research, both at Penn State. He completed a bachelor’s thesis regarding high-risk anal sex among young gay and bisexual males.

His current research focuses primarily on the lives of people with HIV. Specifically, he examines the impact of HIV status-based rejection experiences on social- and health-related outcomes. He also has academic interests in queer theory, critical psychology, and psychoanlytic theory, and maintains a mixed-methods approach to his research.

Publications:
D’Augelli, A. R., Rendina, H. J., Grossman, A. H., & Sinclair, K. O. (2006/07). Lesbian and gay youths’ aspirations for marriage and raising children. Journal of LGBT Issues in Counseling, 1(4), 77-98.