Jules Gill-Peterson

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Jules Gill-Peterson
Known forHistory of trans people, critical work on trans misogynist discrimination
Scientific career
InstitutionsJohns Hopkins University

Jules Gill-Peterson is a Canadian historian specializing in transgender history. She is an associate professor of history at Johns Hopkins University. Her best known work is the 2018 book Histories of the Transgender Child, which documented the pervasiveness of children identifying as transgender in the United States well before the twenty-first century. This book received a Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Literature and the Children’s Literature Association Book Award. 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. In 2020, she received a Chancellor’s Distinguished Research Award from the University of Pittsburgh, where she previously served as a faculty member.[1] She received her B.A. degree from the University of Ottawa in 2010 and her Ph.D. from Rutgers University in 2015.[2][3][4]

Bibliography[edit]

  • Jules Gill-Peterson (2018). Histories of the Transgender Child. Minneapolis: Minnesota University Press.
  • Jules Gill-Peterson (2024). A Short History of Trans Misogyny. London and New York: Verso Books.

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Jules Gill-Peterson". Johns Hopkins University. 20 July 2021. Retrieved 2022-07-12.
  2. ^ "Jules Gill-Peterson Curriculum Vitae" (PDF). Retrieved 2022-07-12.
  3. ^ "New Faculty Profile: Julian Gill-Peterson". University of Pittsburgh. Retrieved 2022-07-12.
  4. ^ Gill-Peterson, Julian (2015). Queer theory is kid stuff: a genealogy of the gay and transgender child (Thesis). Rutgers University - Newark. doi:10.7282/T3GM8963.

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