Jules Gill-Peterson
Jules Gill-Peterson | |
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| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Historian |
| Sub-discipline | Transgender history, critical work on transmisogyny |
| Institutions | Johns Hopkins University |
| Website | www |
Jules Gill-Peterson is a Canadian historian specializing in transgender history. She is an associate professor of history at Johns Hopkins University. Her work focuses on how science, medicine, and race inform transgender embodiment. Her best-known work is Histories of the Transgender Child, which documented the 20th-century history of transgender childhood in the United States. She is a general co-editor of Transgender Studies Quarterly, and previously served as a research fellow at the American Council of Learned Societies and at the Kinsey Institute.
Education
[edit]Peterson earned a bachelor's degree in history from the University of Ottawa in 2010 and received a PhD in American studies from Rutgers University in 2015. She was advised by Professor Frances Bartkowski for her dissertation Queer Theory is Kid Stuff: A Genealogy of the Gay and Transgender Child. In 2020, she received a Chancellor’s Distinguished Research Award from the University of Pittsburgh, where she previously served as a faculty member.[1][2][3][4]
Bibliography
[edit]Books
[edit]- Gill-Peterson, Jules (October 23, 2018). Histories of the Transgender Child. Minneapolis: Minnesota University Press.
- Gill-Peterson, Jules (January 2024). A Short History of Trans Misogyny. London and New York: Verso Books.
References
[edit]- ^ "Jules Gill-Peterson". Johns Hopkins University. 20 July 2021. Retrieved 2022-07-12.
- ^ "Jules Gill-Peterson Curriculum Vitae" (PDF). Retrieved 2022-07-12.
- ^ "New Faculty Profile: Julian Gill-Peterson". University of Pittsburgh. Retrieved 2022-07-12.
- ^ Gill-Peterson, Jules (2015). Queer theory is kid stuff: a genealogy of the gay and transgender child (PhD thesis). Rutgers University - Newark. doi:10.7282/T3GM8963.
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