Victor Ultra Omni (they/them) is a PhD candidate in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Emory University. Their dissertation, The Love Ball: A History of New York City’s House-Structured Ballroom Culture, 1972–1992, offers a historical account of ballroom’s origins through oral histories, participatory action research, and memory work. Their work intervenes in dominant histories of ballroom culture by foregrounding Black forms of intertwined kinship as history-making: a relational praxis that shapes collective survival, rearranges Black femininities, and preserved intergenerational memory amid the grief of the HIV/AIDS epidemic.

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!