📥 Now accepting applications! 📥

The Center for Applied Transgender Studies welcomes applications from prospective Senior Fellows and Junior Fellows to join the Center effective January 2022.

Senior Fellows must hold a terminal degree (e.g., PhD, MD, EdD, PsyD, etc.) in their field of study at the time of their appointment, while Junior Fellows must be enrolled full time in a terminal-degree-seeking program. We particularly welcome applications from prospective Fellows from historically excluded groups and from those outside of North America. To be eligible, applicants must identify as transgender, understood expansively as encompassing all manners of being that are incongruent with one’s sex assigned at birth.

Applications are due September 15, 2021 at 11:59pm CDT

Find out more and submit your application at https://www.appliedtransstudies.org/apply

CATS in the Media

Senior Fellow Aniruddha Dutta was quoted in a The Swaddle article, “India’s Healthcare System Is Still Failing Queer‑Trans People. A Public Health Movement Can Change That,” on June 26.

Senior Fellow Chris Barcelos was quoted in a Mother Jones article, “Is Trans Telehealth the Future—or Just a Cash Grab?,” on July 8.

Junior Fellow Blu Buchanan was quoted in a Newsy article, “LGBTQ Activists Say Misgendering By Police Complicating Crime Fighting,” on June 24.

Upcoming Events

Distinguished Fellow Avery Everhart and Junior Fellows Reubs Walsh and Noah Adams are co-organizing the inaugural conference of TPATH, the Transgender Professional Association for Transgender Health Called Converging Crises in Transgender Activism, Health, and Rights in 2021, it will take place virtually July 30 to August 1. You can find out more at www.tpathealth.org/conference2021, see the conference agenda at https://whova.com/embedded/event/tpath_202107/ and register at https://www.tickettailor.com/events/transgenderprofessionalassociationfortransgenderhealth/476628. Registration is $50 USD, but scholarships are plentiful by contacting conference2021@tpathealth.org.

Senior Fellows Alex Hanna, Austin H Johnson, and T.J. Jourian and Junior Fellow Blu Buchanan will be participating in panels at the Sociologists 4 Trans Justice Writing Symposium on August 13 and 14. Sign up for free at https://tinyurl.com/s4tj2021

New Publications

Executive Director TJ Billard recently published “Together We Rise: The Role of Communication and Community Connectedness in Transgender Citizens’ Civic Engagement in the United States” in Mass Communication and Society.

Senior Fellow Mae Guthman published “STEM Pride: Perspectives from Transgender, Nonbinary, and Genderqueer Scientists” with Adam Armada-Moreira, Carrie Cizauskas, Gabriela Fleury, Sofia Kirke Forslund, Aflah Hanafiah, Jen M. Hope, Izzy Jayasinghe, Danny McSweeney, and Iris D. Young in Cell in June.

Senior Fellow Oliver Haimson published “Transgender Identity Management Across Social Media Platforms” with Justin Buss and Hayden Le in Media, Culture & Society in June.

Senior Fellow Ruth Pearce recently published “Queering Community Development in DIY Punk Spaces” with Kirsty Lohman in Arts, Culture, and Community Development, edited by Rosie Meade and Mae Shaw (Policy Press, 2021).