Faculty

Lisa Rubin is an Associate Professor of Psychology at The New School for Social Research and Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs.

PhD 2005, Arizona State University

Recent and Selected Publications: 

*student authors

*Pavlenko, T., *Nathan, L., *Yom, E., *Stachnik, A., Yarrow, A., & Rubin, L. (2024). Unmet expectations, unmet needs, and uncertainty–A qualitative survey study of women who described giving birth as traumatic. International Perspectives in Psychology, 13. https://doi.org/10.1027/2157-3891/a000102

*Kocas, H. D., Rubin, L. R., & Lobel, M. (2023). Stigma and mental health in endometriosis. European Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology and Reproductive Biology, 19, 100228. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eurox.2023.100228

*Hooberman, L., *Howell, F. M., *Keegan, R., & Rubin, L. R. (2023). “Not that it makes you less of a mother, but…”: Navigating discourses of responsible motherhood in the context of VBAC. Feminism & Psychology, 33(4), 569-588. https://doi.org/10.1177/09593535231181243

*Winslow, A., *Hooberman, L., & Rubin, L.R. (2023) . Werewolves & Two-headed Monsters:  An Exploration of PMDD Sufferers’ Coping, Sharing, & Processing of Premenstrual Distress on an Anonymous Internet Message Board. Women’s Reproductive Health, 10, 420-435.

*Hacker, K. S., *Garzon, M. G., Shuman, S., Shenko, C., & Rubin, L. R. (2022). “I’m Getting Violated… for My Health”: Experiences of Pelvic Exams among Women with Low Incomes. Women's Reproductive Health, 9 (3), 161-182. 

Farvid, P., Vance, T. A., *Klein, S. L., Nikiforova, Y., Rubin, L. R., & *Lopez, F. G. (2021). The health and wellbeing of transgender and gender non‐conforming people of colour in the United States: A systematic literature search and review. Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology, 31(6), 703-731. 

Pastore, L. M., Cordeiro Mitchell, C. N., Rubin, L. R., Nicoloro-Santa Barbara, J., *Genoff Garzon, M. C., & Lobel, M. (2019). Patients’ preimplantation genetic testing decision-making experience: an opinion on related psychological frameworks. Human reproduction Open, 2019(4) 

Panjwani, A. A., Marín-Chollom, A. M., Pervil, I. Z., Erblich, J., Rubin, L. R., Schuster, M. W., & Revenson, T. A. (2018). Illness Uncertainties Tied to Developmental Tasks Among Young Adult Survivors of Hematologic Cancers. Journal of Adolescent and Young Adult Oncology. 

de Melo-Martín, I., Rubin, L. R., & Cholst, I. N. (2018). “I want us to be a normal family”: Toward an understanding of the functions of anonymity among US oocyte donors and recipients. American Journal of Bioethics (AJOB): Empirical Bioethics, 9, 235-351. 

Rubin, L.R., de Melo-Martin, I., Rosenwaks, Z., Cholst, I.N. (2015). Once you're choosing, nobody's perfect: is more information necessarily better in oocyte donor selection? Reproductive Biomedicine Online 30, 3, 311-318

Rubin, L.R., Chavez, J., Alderman, A., Pusic, A.L. (2013). "Use what God has given me": Difference and disparity in breast reconstruction. Psychology & Health 28, 10, 1099-1120.

Rubin, L.R., & *Phillips, A. (2012). Infertility and Assisted Reproductive Technologies: Matters of Reproductive Justice. In J. Chrisler (Ed.). Reproductive Justice: A Global Concern. Santa Barbara: Praeger

Hoyt, M.A., Rubin, L.R., Nemeroff, C., Lee, J., Huebner, D., Proescholdbell, R. (2011). HIV/AIDS-Related Institutional Mistrust among Multi-Ethnic Men Who Have Sex with Men: Effects on HIV Testing and Risk Behaviors. Health Psychology. doi: 10.1037/a0025953 Rubin, L.R. & Steinberg, J.R. (2011). Self-Objectification and Pregnancy: Are Body Functionality Dimensions Protective? Sex Roles, 65, 606-618. DOI: 10.1007/s11199-011-9955-y Rubin, L. & Tanenbaum, M.* (2011). “Does That Make Me A Woman?”: Breast Cancer, Mastectomy and Breast Reconstruction Decisions Among Sexual Minority Women. Psychology of Women Quarterly, 35,401-414. DOI: 10.1177/0361684310395606 Reading, R.*, Rubin, L.R. (2011). Healing, Advocacy, and Empowerment: Group Therapy for LGBT Asylum-seekers. Traumatology, 17, 86-98. DOI: 10.1177/1534765610395622

*Fuller, C., Chang, D., & Rubin, L. (2009). Sliding Under the Radar: Passing and Power amongst Sexual Minorities. Journal of LGBT Issues in Counseling, 3(2), 128-151.

Rubin, L.R., Nemeroff, C.J., Russo, N.F. (2004). Exploring feminist women’s body consciousness. Psychology of Women Quarterly, 28, 27-37. Rubin, L.R., Fitts, M.L., & Becker, A.E. (2003). ‘Whatever feels good in my soul’: Body Ethics and Aesthetics among African American and Latina Women. Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry, 27, 49-75.