About

I am Assistant Professor of Sociology at SUNY Oswego, located on the traditional and ancestral land of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy.

Specializations: I specialize in gender and the sexed body, cis studies, trans theory, feminist science and technology studies, somatechnics, intersex studies, medical sociology, and anti-racist feminism. My work examines how medical discourse produces and naturalizes cisitude, endosex bodies, and whiteness. 

Scholarship: My research is published in Sexualities, the Journal of Gender Studies, and by Canadian Scholars Press with an associated podcast. To access PDFs of my journal articles, visit my publications page.

Current Research: At present, I am investigating how medicine assigns sex to bodies by comparing endosex and intersex diagnoses that share symptoms, treatments, sex variations, and the same etiology, yet they engender different sex assignments from medical authorities. While there is an abundance of scholarship that examines how intersex bodies are medically produced and erased, this research analyzes how medicine creates the boundary between intersex and endosex bodies as a means to understand how medical discourse constructs and naturalizes binary bodies.

Teaching: In fall 2023 I am teaching (De)Constructing the 'Natural': Cisgender, Endosex Bodies, and Race (Oswego). I have previously taught Sociology of Gender (Oswego, SFU); Medicine, Body, & Culture (Pacific University); Race, Immigration, & the Canadian State (SFU); and Introductory Sociology (Oswego).