My scholarly focus centers around trans studies, critical neurodiversity studies, medical sociology, and feminist science and technology studies. The core of my scholarship is to question how knowledge about marginalized groups is produced and how it is sustained and used by our social institutions.
My current research examines the field of trans medicine to understand how ableism is implicated in the medical conceptualization of trans people, affecting trans people’s access to gender-affirming medical care, and thereby their access to desired embodiments. I approach this through the case of autistic transgender people, who make up 8-15% of all transgender people in the United States, but who commonly struggle to obtain and retain access to gender-affirming care.
My most recent article “Accounting for neuronormativity in transgender medicine” was published in Social Science & Medicine. It was awarded the Outstanding Graduate Student Paper Award from the ASA Section on Disability in Society.
Program Evaluation
I am often engaged in program evaluation. I previously served as an evaluation specialist for the CUNY Nurse Fellowship Academy, an academic-practice partnership that aims to up-skill nurses in clinical preceptor, educator, and leadership roles. I also previously served as an evaluator for the TRACC program, a NIDA-funded mentorship and training program focused on creating pathways to translational addiction research for early career researchers.