Jules Gill-Peterson
Jules Gill-Peterson | |
|---|---|
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Historian |
Sub-discipline | Transgender history, transmisogyny |
| Institutions | Johns Hopkins University |
| Website | jgillpeterson |
Jules Gill-Peterson is a Canadian historian specializing in transgender history. She is an associate professor of history at Johns Hopkins University.[1] Her work focuses on how science, medicine, and race inform transgender embodiment. Her best-known work is Histories of the Transgender Child, which documents the 20th-century history of transgender childhood in the United States and received the 2019 Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Nonfiction.[2] She is a general co-editor of Transgender Studies Quarterly,[3] and was previously a research fellow at the American Council of Learned Societies[4] and at the Kinsey Institute.[5]
Education and career
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 Frances Bartkowski for her dissertation Queer Theory is Kid Stuff: A Genealogy of the Gay and Transgender Child.[6]
In 2020, she received a Chancellor’s Distinguished Research Award from the University of Pittsburgh, where she previously served as a faculty member.[1][7]
Bibliography
References
- 1 2 "Jules Gill-Peterson". Johns Hopkins University History. Retrieved June 11, 2026.
- ↑ "31st Annual Lambda Literary Award Winners Announced". Lambda Literary. June 4, 2019. Retrieved December 23, 2024.
- ↑ "ABOUT TSQ". TSQ Now Online. Retrieved June 11, 2026.
- ↑ "Jules Gill-Peterson". ACLS. Retrieved June 11, 2026.
- ↑ Gill-Peterson, Jules (February 1, 2023). "General Editor's Introduction". TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly. 10 (1): 1–9. doi:10.1215/23289252-10273109. ISSN 2328-9252.
- ↑ Gill-Peterson, Jules (2015). Queer theory is kid stuff (PhD thesis). Rutgers. doi:10.7282/T3GM8963.
- ↑ McDevitt, Sinead (October 15, 2019). "Pitt faculty reveals the secret history of transgender children". The Pitt News. Retrieved June 11, 2026.
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