Research on gender, racialization & ethnicity

Researchers

Katelin Albert

Katelin Albert’s research focuses on genders, sexualities, sexual health and sex education. She has a medical and health sociology foundation. Her work has focused on gendered health technologies like the HPV and COVID-19 vaccines.

Katelin’s research explores sexual subjectivities across the life course. This includes campus sexual harassment and violence, and student mental health. She also works to broaden sociological and social theory.

Katelin prioritizes previously marginalized and excluded scholars. Her teaching and research emphasize a wide variety of ways of knowing.

Aaron Devor

Aaron Devor has been researching, writing, and teaching about gender diversity since the mid-1980s. He initiated and holds the inaugural position as the world’s only Research Chair in Transgender Studies and started and hosts the international and interdisciplinary Moving Trans History Forward conferences. He is also the founder and academic director of the world’s largest Transgender Archives.

Aaron has written works foundational to understanding gender diversity including possibly the first book considering people trying to live outside the binary, a theoretical model of transgender identity development, and an in-depth look at binary trans men’s lives. Almost everything that he has done academically has been about gender one way or another.

Steve Garlick

Steve Garlick’s research focuses on a range of issues around gender, especially masculinity. He studies sexuality, technology, bodies, new materialisms and critical social theory.

Steve studies how views on sex, gender and sexuality change over time. He looks at how these ideas connect social structures to nature and shape our knowledge, politics and ways of being.

Midori Ogasawara

Midori Ogasawara researches the social effects of surveillance. She studies identification, personal data and biometrics. These technologies are used to sort people into categories, such as gender, race and class.

Midori studies how surveillance affects different groups. She studies modern and colonial societies. This includes race, labour control, mobility restriction and pre-emptive tactics used by governments, police and colonizers.

Her research goal is to unpack the hidden effects of surveillance activities in relation to patriarchy, colonization, state violence and crimes against humanity.

Peyman Vahabzadeh

Peyman Vahabzadeh studies social movements and group action. His work covers theory and real-world data. It focuses on colonialism, postcoloniality and neocolonialism. It also covers settler colonialism as history. 

Peyman also probes the problem of “othering” from the view of Sociology of Knowledge. He looks at epistemic imperialisms and epistemological hegemonies like Orientalism and the normalization of Western knowledge as global knowledge. His work in this area advocates epistemic transgressions, exilic-experiential resistance, refugee border-crushing and views from the Global South.