Jules Gill-Peterson

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Jules Gill-Peterson is a Canadian historian specializing in transgender history. She is an associate professor of history at Johns Hopkins University. Her work focuses on how science, medicine, and race inform transgender embodiment. Her best-known work is Histories of the Transgender Child, which documents the 20th-century history of transgender childhood in the United States, and received the 2019 Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Nonfiction.{{Cite web |last= |first= |date=2019-06-04 |title=31st Annual Lambda Literary Award Winners Announced |url=https://lambdaliterary.org/2019/06/lambda-literary-awards-31st-winners/ |access-date=2024-12-23 |website=Lambda Literary |language=en-US}} She is a general co-editor of Transgender Studies Quarterly, and previously served as a research fellow at the American Council of Learned Societies and at the Kinsey Institute.

Education

Peterson earned a bachelor's degree in history from the University of Ottawa in 2010 and received a PhD in American studies from Rutgers University in 2015. She was advised by Professor Frances Bartkowski for her dissertation Queer Theory is Kid Stuff: A Genealogy of the Gay and Transgender Child. In 2020, she received a Chancellor’s Distinguished Research Award from the University of Pittsburgh, where she previously served as a faculty member.{{Cite web |date=20 July 2021 |title=Jules Gill-Peterson |url=https://history.jhu.edu/directory/jules-gill-peterson/ |access-date=2022-07-12 |website=Johns Hopkins University |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |title=Jules Gill-Peterson Curriculum Vitae |url=https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5b606bca372b96bcc48153e3/t/61b2479dd8f3e81324323b29/1639073693806/CV+Gill-Peterson+Nov+2021.pdf |access-date=2022-07-12}}{{Cite web |title=New Faculty Profile: Julian Gill-Peterson |url=http://english-old.pitt.edu/new-faculty-profile-julian-gill-peterson |access-date=2022-07-12 |website=University of Pittsburgh}}{{Cite thesis |last=Gill-Peterson |first=Jules |title=Queer theory is kid stuff: a genealogy of the gay and transgender child |date=2015 |publisher=Rutgers University - Newark |url= |doi=10.7282/T3GM8963 |degree=PhD}}

Bibliography

= Books =

{{Cite book |last=Gill-Peterson |first=Jules |title=Histories of the Transgender Child |date=October 23, 2018 |publisher=Minnesota University Press |location=Minneapolis}}
{{Cite book |last=Gill-Peterson |first=Jules |title=A Short History of Trans Misogyny |date=January 2024 |publisher=Verso Books |location=London and New York}}