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PhD: Anthropology (Women’s Studies), University of California, Santa Cruz

MA: Anthropology, University of California, Santa Cruz

BA: Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley

Areas of Research / Publication

Queer studies; anthropology of sexuality/gender, race, and colonialisms; queer and feminist ethnography; feminist and queer/trans pedagogies; community-based and activist research methods.

Research Interests

I am an interdisciplinary queer ethnographer publishing in the fields of queer and feminist anthropology, at their junctures with Indigenous studies, race and ethnic studies, and American studies. I am a past president of the Association for Queer Anthropology (2010–12). At Queen’s University, I co-founded and co-organize the Queen’s Feminist Ethnography Network, which formed in 2017 to connect and support Queen’s faculty, postgraduate, and student researchers who study and practice feminist ethnography and related methods. In the Department of Gender Studies, I served for six years as Graduate Chair (2012; 2015–19) during which time I supported the development and launch of the Gender Studies PhD Program.

My scholarship examines the intertwined intellectual formations of anthropology, ethnography, and queer and feminist politics. My current research examines histories of and of the through the lens of interdisciplinary theories of modernity in gender studies. My first body of work contributed to anthropology, gender studies, and Indigenous studies, and to the emerging fields of and . My book (University of Minnesota Press, 2011) was published in the First Peoples: New Directions in Indigenous Studies book series and received the 2012 Ruth Benedict Prize – Honorable Mention from the Association for Queer Anthropology. Essays drawn from the book appear in journals and collections in , , , and .

I also publish essays and guest-edited issues on studies of sexuality/gender, race, and colonialism in such fields as , , and , and . I write on pedagogy in the fields of , , , and .

Currently, I sit on the editorial board of American Ethnologist. I have served on the Board of Managing Editors of American Quarterly (2019–2023) and on the editorial board of Critical Ethnic Studies (2016–2019) and from 2014–2017 I was co-Editor of Journal of Critical Race Inquiry.

Selected Publications / Works in Progress

Queer and Feminist Ethnography in Gender Studies: Interdisciplinary Methods Transforming Anthropology. Handbook on the Anthropology of Gender and Sexuality. Svati Shah and Erica Williams, ed. (in progress)

Intimate Methods: Reflections on racial and colonial legacies within sexual social science. , p. 77-96. Margot Weiss, ed. Durham: Duke University Press, 2024.

Heteronormativity. with Kyla Wazana Tompkins, interviewer. Feminist Keywords, 2024.

Accountable Reasoning. Comment: Current Anthropology 63(1): 22-23 (2022).

. Keywords in Gender and Sexuality Studies, The Keywords Feminist Editorial Collective (ed.), p. 111-114. New York: New York University Press, 2021.

. Cultural Anthropology 31(4): 608-617 (2016).

. TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly 3 (1-2): 192-201 (2016).

. American Quarterly 67 (2): 309-315 (2015).

. Indigenous Men and Masculinities: Legacies, Identities, and Regenerations, Rob Innes and Kim Anderson (ed.), p. 38-61. Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press, 2015.

Graduate Supervision

At Queen’s, I supervise PhD students in the Gender Studies and Cultural Studies graduate programs and Gender Studies MA students in the following research areas:

• queer/trans studies
• politics of sexuality/gender, race, and nation
• Indigenous studies
• colonial studies
• studies of HIV/AIDS (histories, cultures, politics)
• masculinity studies
• ethnography, community-based research, and activist research

Selected Supervised Theses / Dissertations (online access)

Michelle Tam (MA 2018, Gender Studies)
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Brett Willes (MA 2017, Gender Studies)
MA Thesis:

Monique Harvison (MA 2016, Gender Studies)
MA Thesis:

Natasha Stirrett (MA 2015, Gender Studies)
MA Thesis:

Dana Wesley (MA 2015, Gender Studies)
MA Thesis:

A.W. Lee (PhD 2015, Cultural Studies) (co-supervised with Kip Pegley)
PhD Dissertation:  

Karl Hardy (PhD 2015, Cultural Studies)
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