Henny Bos
Professor of Sexual and Gender Diversity in Families & Youth, University of Amsterdam
Henny Bos (she/her/hers) is a professor of sexual and gender diversity in families and youth at the University of Amsterdam (Research Institute of Child Development and Education; RICDE) and serves as the co-investigator of the U.S. National Longitudinal Lesbian Family Study (NLLFS), the longest-running prospective study on lesbian mothers who had children as the result of donor insemination during the lesbian baby boom of the 1980s. Dr. Bos is internationally known for her research on lesbian mother families in the U.S. and the Netherlands, and on gay father families, same-sex attracted and gender-nonconforming youth. She was awarded "Teacher of the Year" in the Research Institute of Child Development and Education three times, most recently in 2017. She also received the Emde Boas - Van Ussel award from the Dutch Society of Sexuality in 2019 and the ‘Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award’ by the American Psychological Association’s (APA) division of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transsexual Psychology in 2017.