T.J. Jourian, PhD

T.J. Jourian is an independent scholar and consultant with Trans*Formational Change, and previously was an Assistant Professor of Higher Educational Leadership at Oakland University. He co-founded the Trans*Forming Higher Education (T.H.E.) Collaborative (formerly T*Circle), a group of trans and nonbinary scholars and scholar-practitioners in higher education and student affairs, as well as the Journal of Critical Scholarship on Higher Education and Student Affairs. Centering trans and queer people of color’s experiences and epistemologies, Dr. Jourian's scholarship and advocacy examines gender, race, and sexuality in higher education, with particular attention to masculinity, transness, and racialization; campus gender and sexuality centers and practitioners; and trans*ing constructs and methodologies.