Taylor’s research has also been supported by the National Science Foundation and the Wenner-Gren Foundation. Before graduate school, they received a BA from Brown University and worked in public health.

Victor’s body of scholarship grounds approaches to theories of Black gender and sexuality. Their writing appears or is forthcoming in Transgender Studies Quarterly, The Black Scholar, African American Intellectual Historical Society, and Australian Feminist Studies. Previous and current academic appointments include the inaugural Trans Studies at the Commons Fellow at the University of Kansas,  Scholar in Residence at NYU’s Hemispheric Institute and the Ethics and Outreach Coordinator at the University of Victoria’s Transgender Archives. They also co-direct the 2025–2026 Publicly Active Graduate Education (PAGE) Fellowship with Imagining America. Victor’s work is supported by the Mellon Foundation, Society for History of Visual Anthropology, the Ten:Tacles Initiative for Transgender History.

Since 2017, Victor has been a proud member of the Worldwide Pioneering House of Ultra Omni. Currently, they are the co-editing Trans Studies Quarterly issue 13.3 with Dr. Eva Pensis and ballroom-archivist-filmmaker Noelle Deleon and a scholarly advisor to the City Museum of New York City’s exhibition ¡Urban Stomp!

Their article, “‘Sex Changed by a Court’s Decree’: The History-and-Tradition of Gender Transitions in the United States,” is forthcoming in Georgetown Law Journal. Outside UC Berkeley, Brianne teaches free online queer history classes open to the community. They also volunteer for the Monroe County History Center’s project on the queer history of Bloomington.

Their work has been supported by the William Nelson Cromwell Foundation and the Phi Beta Kappa Northern California Association. They have a JD from Berkeley Law and a BA from Columbia University.

Through oral history interviews, legal analysis, and a wide range of archival sources, “Standard” shows how these activists have both shaped and adapted to major changes in public attitudes and legal frameworks. “Standard” pays particular attention to the range of viewpoints, tactics, and political investments between various trans individuals and communities, as well as the differential availability of care along axes of race, class, ability, incarceration status, and documentation status.

Cam’s writing has appeared in Real Life magazine and Feminist Media Studies. They were a 2024-2025 ACLS/Mellon Dissertation Innovation Fellow.

Daniela researches the history of trans and gender diverse people of color in the twentieth century United States. Her scholarship lies at the intersection of LGBTQ history, labor and working-class politics, and Black and Brown liberation movements.

Based on extensive research in the archives of criminalization of New York City and oral histories with trans and gender nonconforming people of color, Valdes’s dissertation offers a grassroots social history of working-class Black and Brown gender diverse New Yorkers from the Great Migrations of African Americans and Puerto Ricans at midcentury to the early twenty-first century. Her dissertation is a working-class history that broaches forms of survival and resistance, including participation in the informal economy. Additionally, she examines the under-researched historical connections between the carceral state and psychiatry showing how the era of mass public-order policing underwrote the criminalization and pathologization of racialized, queered, and disabled people that continues to this day.

Daniela is a gender nonconforming Latino scholar with over a decade of community engagement and activism in the trans and queer communities of the Northeastern United States. She serves as the chair of the community advisory board for “Y’all Better Quiet Down”: Trans BIPOC Digitization Initiative” of the Digital Transgender Archive. Previously, she worked with the Rikers Public Memory Project where she co-created the documentary Story by Story: Building A People’s History of Rikers Island.

As the first historical study of queer people in the U.S. foster system, Nora’s dissertation provides a unique lens into the debate over the transformation of the American family. Drawing on original oral history interviews and archival resources, they examine the processes by which shifting notions of race, sexuality, and disability remade American foster care and American family policy more broadly. Nora’s work has been supported by the WW Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship in Women’s Studies from the Institute for Citizens & Scholars, the ONE Archives Foundation, and the University of California-Santa Barbara.

Prior to attending graduate school, Nora worked as a community organizer, and a commitment to publicly-engaged scholarship remains central to their work. Nora received an MA in history from University of California, Santa Barbara and a BA in Classics from Macalester College. 

In addition to his sociological training, Joss has developed his analysis of state violence against trans people based on his own experiences doing trans prisoner advocacy since 2013.  He has been a regular volunteer with organizations in the Bay Area, including the Transgender Gender variant Intersex Justice Project, and most recently served as a core collective member with the Sylvia Rivera Law Project.  His relationships with organizers and currently incarcerated people motivate him to understand changes in carceral control and how people resist it.

Joss believes that engaged scholarship is a politically powerful tool.  To this end, he supports organizations in designing and implementing their own research, leads community workshops based on his data, and has presented his findings to California government officials at the city, county, and state level.  He is currently collaborating with a community organizer on the first national research looking at transgender women of color’s experiences in the labor market.