Associate Professor @NU_SoC and @NUsociology. ED and EIC @TransStudies. Author, Voices for Trans Equality (Oxford, 2024). @WTGrantFdn Scholar.
Chicago, IL
Joined May 2014
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Overjoyed to share that my latest article (with two of my PhD students) is out now in Sex Roles! And, thanks to the Big Ten Academic Alliance, the article is open access! So, be sure to read it, share it, and cite it!
link.springer.com/article/10…
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interesting that Harvard Law has appointed one of the country's leading opponents of same-sex marriage to a tenured professorship
Professional update: This spring, I will join @Harvard_Law School’s faculty as a tenured professor, teaching constitutional law, jurisprudence, and related subjects. 1/11
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NEW: @UTAustin quietly cuts ethnic, gender studies majors from new student applications
Future students can no longer major in Women’s, Sexualities & Gender studies; Mexican American & Latina/o studies; African & African Diaspora studies as of fall 2027.
statesman.com/news/education…
Always a delight chatting with the trans rights icon herself, Riki Wilchins! You can read the interview over at Assigned Media.
assignedmedia.org/breaking-n…
And, if you’re in Chicago on Tuesday, I’ll be hosting a screening and Q&A of Rosa von Praunheim’s documentary about the org Riki founded, Transexual Menace, at the Goethe-Institut Chicago! Tickets are free, so I’d love to see you there!
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Overjoyed to share that my latest article (with two of my PhD students) is out now in Sex Roles! And, thanks to the Big Ten Academic Alliance, the article is open access! So, be sure to read it, share it, and cite it!
link.springer.com/article/10…
I'm joining the 8th Annual Extra Life Marathon, playing 24-hour of (live streamed!) D&D to fundraise for @LurieChildrens.
Donate today to support the cause AND influence the game!
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Idk what’s going on with journals right now, but I’ve done 12 peer reviews in the last two months (plenty of which I should have said no to, I know) and I’ve already gotten three more requests this morning. Stop the madness!
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this article is definitely worth the read
"I do not think anyone over the age of 23, even if you are a teacher, graduate student, or professor, understands the extent to which AI usage affects every appendage of the university system." thenewcritic.com/p/the-great…
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“Writing isn’t just the production of sentences – it’s the training of endurance by way of sustained attention. It’s a way of learning what one thinks by attempting to say it.”
Use of AI by creative writing students: theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i…
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The degree to which I am treated as something between a curiosity and a zealot by colleagues at both institutions where I teach, because I insist that AI has no place in the writing classroom, is dismaying. But I’m not blinking first here.
“Meet the academics refusing to use generative AI.”
nature.com/articles/d41586-0…
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Solidarity with workers at the University of Chicago Press, who have formed the first union at one of the oldest and most distinguished academic publishers in the U.S.
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Academic freedom is dead in Texas
New paper out in Journal of Children and Media with three of my PhD students! In it, we explore the distinctiveness of parents’ opinions on transgender rights and how it relates to right-wing media use and gender-focused anxieties.
Read it now: doi.org/10.1080/17482798.202…
The symbolism is a little too on the nose.
The Dallas Mavericks are expected to submit a proposal soon that entails demolishing Dallas City Hall, designed by I. M. Pei, and in its place building a new 50-acre entertainment district, anchored by a new NBA arena.
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9. Faculty salaries in the 16th century. Philosophy >> STEM!
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UPDATE: Letters from Leo can now independently confirm that the meeting took place — and that the Vatican was so alarmed by the Pentagon’s tactics that Pope Leo XIV shelved plans to visit the United States later this year.
Many in the Vatican saw the Pentagon’s reference to an Avignon papacy as a threat to use military force against the Holy See.
NEW: A stunning new report claims that the Pentagon summoned Pope Leo XIV’s top American diplomat and threatened him after the U.S.-born pontiff gave his January state-of-the-world address.
Leo used the address to denounce a world ruled by “a diplomacy based on force” and “zeal for war.”
thelettersfromleo.com/p/the-…
