the link between negative aspects of waitressing at breastaurants and negative emotions such as anxiety, anger, sadness, depressed mood, confusion, and degradation. This led to the publication of a study in 2017 titled Sexually Objectifying Environments: Power, Rumination, and Waitresses’ Anxiety and Disordered Eating. Along with co-author Renee Mikorski, Szymanski found that women who work in breastaurants are at higher risk for anxiety and eating disorders. As a result of her "outstanding contributions in advancing lesbian, bisexual, and transgender women's psychology through research, teaching, practice, and/or activism," she received the APA's 2017 Laura Brown Award. In 2019, Szymanski was appointed the Editor-In-Chief of the Society for the Psychology of Women's (Division 35 of the American Psychological Association) journal, Psychology of Women Quarterly. References External links 1967 births Living people University of Tennessee faculty University of Missouri–St. Louis faculty State University of New York at Fredonia alumni Indiana State University alumni Georgia State University alumni Academic journal editors American feminist writers