Paisley Currah

"Incarceration, Identity Politics, and the Trans-Cis Divide." In The Transgender Studies Reader Remix, edited by Dylan McCarthy Blackston and Susan Stryker, 352-365. New York: Routledge.

Sex Is as Sex Does: Governing Transgender Identity (New York: NYU Press, 2022). (Use Currah30 for 30% discount on NYU site.)

"What Sex Does." New York Review of Books, May 27.

Paisley Currah, "To set transgender policy, look to the evidence," Nature, September 27, 2022.

"To Challenge Trans Injustices, We Must First Understand Why They Exist." Rewire News Group, May 31.

Sex is as Sex Does: Governing Transgender Identity (New York: New York University Press, 2022).

Currah, Paisley. "Incarceration, Identity Politics, and the Trans-Cis Divide." In Transgender Studies Reader Remix. Edited by Dylan McCarthy Blackston and Susan Stryker (New York: Routledge, forthcoming July 2022).

Currah, Paisley. "The Work that Sex Does." In The Intimate State. Edited by Margot Canaday, Nancy F. Cott, and Robert O. Self (University of Chicago Press, 2021)

Currah, Paisley. "How a Conservative Legal Perspective Just Saved LGBT Rights." The Boston Review, June 19, 2020.

"Social Justice for Gender and Sexual Minorities: A Discussion with Paisley Currah and Aeyal Gross." Critical Analysis of Law, Vol 6 No 1 (2019): Queer Legal Studies.

Aultman, B Lee and Paisley Currah. "Politics Outside the Law: Transgender Lives and the Challenge of Legibility." In GLBTQ Politics, edited by Marla Brettschneider, Christine Keating, and Susan Burgess. New York: New York University Press (2017).

"Transgender Rights Without a Theory of Gender," 52 Tulsa L. Rev. 441 (2017).

Currah, Paisley and Susan Stryker. "Making Transgender Count." TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly 2.1.

Moore, Lisa Jean and Paisley Currah. "Legally Sexed: Birth Certificates and Transgender Citizens." Feminist Surveillance Studies. Eds. Rachel Dubrofsky and Shoshana Magnet. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press.

"Homonationalism, State Rationalities, and Sex Contradictions." Theory & Event 16.1, March.

"The State." TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly 1.1/2, May.

"Introduction, Symposium on the State of LGBT/Sexuality Studies in Political Science." PS: Political Science & Politics 44.1: 13-16.

Currah, Paisley and Tara Mulqueen. "Securitizing Gender: Identity, Biometrics, and Gender Non-conforming Bodies." Social Research 78.2, Summer: 557-82.

Currah, Paisley and Monica Casper. Corpus: An Interdisciplinary Reader on Bodies and Knowledge. An edited collection that explores bodies and embodiment through multiple interdisciplinary lenses, including studies of aging, feminist technoscience, food, fat studies, race and genetics, new media, death, sexuality, surveillance and trauma. Showcasing original work by a range of up-and-coming and senior scholars. Palgrave.

Currah, Paisley and Monica J. Casper. "Bringing Forth the Body: The Disciplines and Body Studies." Corpus: An Interdisciplinary Reader on Bodies and Knowledge. Eds. Monica J. Casper and Paisley Currah. Palgrave.

"Expecting Bodies: The Pregnant Man." Reprinted in Gendered Bodies: Feminist Perspectives. Eds. Judith Lorber and Lisa Jean Moore. New York: Oxford University Press.

Currah, Paisley, Jamison Green and Susan Stryker. "The State of Transgender Rights in the United States of America," a working paper written for the Global Dialog on Sexual Health and Well Being, organized by the four regional National Sexuality Resource Centers and funded by Ford. Published by the National Sexuality Resource Center in March and presented in New York on April 17.

Currah, Paisley and Lisa Jean Moore. "'We Won't Know Who You Are': Contesting Sex Classifications on New York City Birth Certificate Policy." Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy 24.3, Summer.

"The Transgender Rights Imaginary." Feminist and Queer Legal Theory: Intimate Encounters, Uncomfortable Conversations. Eds. Martha Albertson Fineman, Jack E. Jackson and Adam P. Romero. Ashgate Press.

"Stepping Back, Looking Outward: Situating Transgender Activism and Transgender Studies. Kris Hayashi, Matt Richardson, and Susan Stryker Frame the Movement." (A roundtable discussion moderated by Paisley Currah.) Sexuality Research and Social Policy 5.1, March: 93-105.

"Expecting Bodies: The Pregnant Man and Transgender Exclusion from the Employment Non-Discrimination Act." Women's Studies Quarterly 36.3&4, December.

Currah, Paisley and Dean Spade, guest co-editors. "The State We're In: Locations of Coercion and Resistance in Trans Policy, Part II." Sexuality Research and Social Policy V.i, March. The entire issue is online here.

Currah, Paisley, Lisa Jean Moore and Susan Stryker, guest editors. Trans-. A special issue of Women's Studies Quarterly 36.3&4, December.

Currah, Paisley, Gael Gunden Guevara and Richard M. Juang. "Transgender Justice: Selected Proceedings of the Transgender Politics, Social Change, and Justice Conference," held at the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies and published with the support of the Gill Foundation and the Open Society Institute.

Currah, Paisley and Dean Spade, guest co-editors. "The State We're In: Locations of Coercion and Resistance in Trans Policy, Part I." Sexuality Research and Social Policy: Journal of National Sexuality Resource Center IV.iv, December. The entire issue is online HERE.

Currah, Paisley, Richard M. Juang and Shannon Price Minter, editors. Transgender Rights. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. The first comprehensive book on the U.S. transgender rights movement. Over the past three decades, the transgender movement has gained visibility and achieved significant victories. Discrimination has been prohibited in several states, dozens of municipalities, and more than 200 private companies, while hate crime laws in eight states have been amended to include gender identity. Yet prejudice and violence against transgender people remain all too common. With analysis from legal and policy experts, activists and advocates, transgender rights assesses the movement's achievements, challenges and opportunities for future action. This groundbreaking book is an indispensable resource in the fight for the freedom and equality of those who cross gender boundaries.

"Gender Pluralisms Under the Transgender Umbrella." Transgender Rights. Eds. Paisley Currah, Richard M. Juang and Shannon Price Minter. Minneapolis: Minnesota University Press. 3-31.

Currah, Paisley, Richard M. Juang and Shannon Minter. "Introduction." Transgender Rights. Eds. Paisley Currah, Richard M. Juang and Shannon Price Minter. Minneapolis: Minnesota University Press. xiii-xiv.

"The Other Sex Lawrence v. Texas." Cardozo Women's Law Journal 10.2, Winter: 321-24.

Currah, Paisley, and Shannon Minter. "Unprincipled Exclusions: The Struggle for Legislative and Judicial Protections for Transgendered People." Regulating Sex: The Politics of Intimacy and Identity. Eds. Elizabeth Bernstein and Laurie Schnaffer. New York: Routledge. 35-49. Revised and expanded from: Currah, Paisley and Shannon Minter, "Unprincipled Exclusions: The Struggle for Legislative and Judicial Protections for Transgendered People." College of William and Mary Journal of Women and the Law 7.1, Fall 2000: 37-66.

"The Transgender Rights Imaginary." Georgetown Journal of Gender and the Law 4: 705-20.

Review of Joanne Meyerowitz, How Sex Changed: A History of Transsexuality in the U.S. Women's Review of Books, February.

Solomon, Alisa, and Paisley Currah. Introduction. Queer Ideas: The David R. Kessler Lectures in Lesbian and Gay Studies. New York: Feminist Press. 5-18.

"Queer Theory, Lesbian and Gay Rights, and Transsexual Marriages." Identity/Space/Power. Ed. Mark Blasius. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press. 178-99.

Michael Lynch Service Award, from the GL/Q Caucus of the Modern Language Association. The award is intended, in Eve Sedgwick's words, "to publicize and celebrate--and as widely as possible--the range, the forms, the energy, and the history of queer activism by academics."

Small Research Grant Award, from The Williams Institute's Small Grants Program, for "Administrating Sex: Investigating How Federal Agencies Develop Criteria for Sex Reclassification."

Transgender Rights, edited collection, announced as a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award.

Arcus Foundation, for the LGBTQ History Project. As executive director of the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies, CUNY Graduate Center. $100,000.

Ford Foundation's Education, Sexuality and Religion section of the Knowledge, Freedom and Values Program, for CLAGS's International Resource Network 2007. Principal investigator as leader of the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies, CUNY Graduate Center. $361,000.

Sylvia Rivera Award in Transgender Studies from the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies awarded to Transgender Rights. Eds. Paisley Currah, Richard M. Juang and Shannon Price Minter. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

Distinguished Awardee, New York City Comptroller William C. Thompson's Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Pride Celebration, June.

Ford Foundation, for CLAGS's International Resource Network (www.irnweb.org). Principal investigator as leader of the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies, CUNY Graduate Center. $300,000.

Open Society Institute ($15,000) and Gill Foundation ($15,000), for a conference and book, "Trans Justice, Social Change, and Politics." Principal investigator as leader of the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies, CUNY.

Wayne F. Placek Award, American Psychological Foundation. One of two scholars chosen nationally for award to support two years of research investigating federal and state judicial opinions and briefing materials involving transgender plaintiffs and the construction of gender in the law. $30,000.

Fellow, Wolfe Institute for the Humanities, Brooklyn College, 1999-2000.

Currah, Paisley and Susan Stryker. Editors of "Making Transgender Count," a special issue of TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly 2.1, February.

Currah, Paisley and Susan Stryker. Editors of "Postposttranssexual: Key Concepts for a Twenty-First-Century Transgender Studies." TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly 2.1, May.

Member, advisory board, Ford Foundation-funded inter-university project, "Beyond Bullying: Shifting the Discourse of LGBTQ Sexuality and Youth in Schools."

Sex Is as Sex Does: Author-meets-critics roundtable, American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Montreal, Quebec, with Angela D. Ledford, Julie L. Novkov, em padilla, Dara Z. Strolovitch, Juliet A. Williams, Joanna W. Wuest, September 16, 2022

"Trans Studies After Identity Politics," Keynote address, International Colloquium on Transgender Studies/Transgender Epistemologies, Laboratoire des études de genre et de sexualité (LEGS), UMR 8238, Université Paris 8 Vincennes Saint-Denis, October 17-19.

"Female, Non-Binary, or Male: Who Gets to Decide?" Las Positas College, California, May 6.

"What is Sexual Justice?" Brudner roundtable with Paisley Currah, Che Gossett, Tey Meadow, and Shatema Threadcraft, Yale University, April 14.

"Sex Discrimination and the End of the Transgender Exception," Gender and Sexuality Studies Speaker Series, Temple University, March 9, 2021.

"What Would a Transgender Political Science Look Like?", keynote address for the conference, "Intersectionality and Transgender Studies: From Margin to Center," Otto Suhr Institute of Political Science at the Freie Universität, Berlin, Germany, October 2021.

Discussant: "Trans Identities between State Coercion and Self Assertion: New Histories of 20th-Century Germany, Israel, and Britain," American Historical Association Annual Meeting, January, 2020.

"Can we stop talking about transphobia already?", Queer Politics Webinar, Princeton University, August 20, 2020.

"Sex is as Sex Does," Law School, Queen's University at Kingston, Canada, February 2020.

"Beyond Virtue and Vice: Rethinking human rights and the criminal law," Roundtable at the Annual Meeting of the Law and Society Association, Washington, DC, June 2019

"Global Legacies of Stonewall-Roundtable Discussion," New York University, April 2019.

"Social Justice for Gender and Sexual Minorities," with Joe Fischel and Aeyal Gross, Provocations in Queer Legal Studies Conference, Yale University, September 2019

"The Politics and Rights of Trans & Gender-Nonconforming People," Columbia Law School, November 2019.

"Trans Misogyny," Gender Institute, University of Buffalo, November 2019.

"Transfeminism," a lecture in the annual Feminist, Gender and Sexuality Studies Fall Symposium, Wesleyan University, October 2019.

"Why do Bathrooms Matter? Sex Classification, Trans Politics, and the New Culture Wars," keynote address, 21st Annual Conference on Race, Class, Gender, and Ethnicity Law School, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, February 2017.

"Freeze Frames: The Carceral State, Trans Prisoners, and Neoliberal Penality," Connecticut College, February 29, 2016

"Freeze Frames: The Carceral State, Trans Prisoners, and Neoliberal Penality," Purdue University, February 9, 2016.

"The Left Neoliberalism of Transgender Politics," Duke University, September 29.

"Transgender as Exception: From Bathrooms to Airports?" New School University, April 5, 2016.

"Transgender Beside Itself: Paradigms, Paradoxes, and Other Exemplary Subjects," University of Rhode Island, Transforming Scholarship Keynote Address, April 9, 2016.

"Are Transgender Politics Feminist," Center for the Study of Women and Society, Graduate Center, November 10, 2015.

"Freeze Frames: The Carceral State, Trans Prisoners, and Neoliberal Penality," Political Theory Colloquium, Graduate Center, CUNY, March 26, 2015.

"The 'Freeze Frame' Policy, Trans Prisoners and the Carceral State," Seminar Series on Gender, Sexuality and Public Heath, Mailman School, Columbia University, February 28, 2015.

"Transgender Experience and its Implications for Theory," New School for Social Research, March 31, 2015.

"Included in What and as What? Contradictions in Sex Classification and the Idea of the Unitary State"? Annual Meeting of the Western Political Science Association, Seattle, Washington, April 17-19, 2014.

"Freezing Gender: Dead Space, Time, and Incarcerated Trans Bodies," National Women?s Studies Association Annual Meeting, San Juan, Puerto Rico, November 14, 2014.

"Trans-disciplinary Transgender Studies," Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, Toronto, Canada, May 23, 2014.

"Homonationalism, Federalism, and Gender Pluralism." University of Utah. Nov. 30.

Currah, Paisley and Tara Mulqueen. "Securitizing Gender." The Body and the State: 22nd Social Research Conference at the New School. New York, February. On youtube about 57:03 minutes into the clip.

"Naturalizations: Sophie, the Pregnant Man, and Biopolitical Futures" keynote address. Shifting Agendas, School of Social Sciences. University of Manchester, England. Feb. 19.

"Reproducing Citizenship: Blood, Soil, and the Pregnant Man." All in the Family: An Interdisciplinary Workshop on Kinship and Community. The Center for Humanities, CUNY Graduate Center. New York, March 24-25.

"Sex and State Effects--or, Why Contradictions in Legal Sex Classification Are Not Really Contradictions." LGBTQ Lecture Series. Princeton University. Princeton, N.J., April 6.

"Sex Is as Sex Does." Amherst College. Amherst, Mass., Dec. 1.

"Bodies out of Time, Genders out of Place." TransRhetorics Conference. Cornell University. Ithaca, N.Y., March 6-8.

"Law's Sexual Geographies," a keynote lecture for the inauguration of the Gender and Sexuality Studies Program, Marymount Manhattan College. New York, Feb. 18.

"Gendering Rights." Invited panelist, TransLaw Conference, Harvard Lambda Legal Law Association. Harvard Law School, Feb. 29-March 1.

'Sex's Place, Gender's Time." Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association. Boston, Aug. 28-31.

"Body Politics: New Directions in Transgender Studies." Bowdoin College. Brunswick, Maine, Feb. 28.

"The Time of Gender, the Place of Sex: Fixing Transgender Bodies." Feminist Studies Research Group, CUNY Graduate Center. New York, Oct. 31.

Currah, Paisley and Lisa Jean Moore. "'We Don't Know Who You Are': Birth Certificate Policy Reform, Transgender Activism and Medical Expertise," The Future of Sexuality Research: Methodological to Social Policy Innovations Conference, co-sponsored by the National Consortium for Sexuality Research and Training and The Kinsey Institute, Indiana University, Bloomington, held at the Kinsey Institute, April 9-11.

Currah, Paisley and Lisa Moore. "Disintegrated Identification and Surveillance: The Trans Bodies as Harbingers," Workshop on Surveillance and Inequality, funded by the National Science Foundation. Arizona State University. March 16-18.

"'We Don't Know Who You Are': Preventing Fraud, Ensuring Permanence, and Fixing Transgender Identity Documents in the Post 9/11 U.S." Global Sexualities Research Collaborative, Institute for Advanced Study, University of Minnesota. April 19.

"Fixing Bodies: Tracking Transgender Identities in the Post 9/11 U.S." Political Theory Colloquium. CUNY Graduate Center. New York, March 30.

"Fixing the Bureaucratic Gaze on Transgender Bodies: An Overview of Current Legal and Policy Issues." Yale University. New Haven, Conn., Feb. 28.

"Not the United States of Gender: Framing Transgender Activism in Societies of Control." Institute for Research on Women, Rutgers University, 2007-08 Distinguished Lecture Series. Nov. 8.

"The State of Queer Studies." University of Massachusetts, Amherst, March 1.

Currah, Paisley and Lisa Jean Moore. "'We Don't Know Who You Are': Transgender Identity Documents in the Post 9/11 U.S." Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality, New York University. March 28.

Currah, Paisley and Lisa Moore. "'We Don't Know Who You Are': Birth Certificate Policy Reform, Transgender Advocacy, and Medical Expertise." Society for the Social Studies of Science. Vancouver, Canada, November.

"Teaching Transgender Subjects, Theories and Lives." Montclair State University. Montclair, N.J., February.

"The Closet and Gay Academia." Ithaca College. Ithaca, N.Y., February.

"The Transgender Rights Imaginary." Smith College. Northampton, Mass., April.

"Transgender Issues and the Law." University of Delaware, March.

"Same-Sex Marriage and Beyond." Inaugural Mary C. Dunlap Memorial Lecture, Boalt School of Law. Berkeley, Calif., Feb. 24.

Chair, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Minor Working Group. Click here for more information on the LGBTQ minor at Brooklyn College . 2007-present.

Executive Committee, PhD Program in Political Science, Graduate Center, City University of New York, 2015-2018.

Subfield Chair, Political Theory, PhD Program in Political Science, Graduate Center, CUNY, 2016-2017.

Co-Chair, Normative Political Theory Division for the 2017 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, 2016-17

Graduate Deputy Chair, MA concentrations in political science, urban administration and policy, 2015-present.

Member, Advisory Committee, Human Rights Watch Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Rights Program, 2006-12.

Committee on the Status of Lesbians, Gays, Bisexuals and the Transgendered (LGBT) in the Profession, standing committee of the American Political Science Association. 2008-11.

President, Sexuality & Politics Section of the American Political Science Association, 2010-11.

Founder and board member, Transgender Law and Policy Institute, July 2000-present.

Program chairperson, Sexuality and Politics Section of the American Political Science Association. 2009-10.

Executive Committee, Sexuality and Politics Section of the American Political Science Association. 2008-09.

Member, External Review Team, Women's Studies Department, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada.

External program evaluator, Undergraduate Program in Sexual Diversity Studies, University of Toronto.

Executive director, Center for Lesbian & Gay Studies, CUNY Graduate Center, 2003-07.

Member, Steering Committee, University Consortium on Sexuality Research and Training, March 2006-present. (A project of the Ford Foundation to support sexuality research training in the United States)

External Advisory Committee to the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene for the Amendment of Birth Certificates for Transgender Persons, January 2005-December 2006.

Citizens Advisory Committee Transgender Subcommittee, New York City Human Resources Administration; co-author, "Recommended Best Practices for Working With and Serving Transgender and Gender Non-Conforming Employees and Clients," November 2004-December 2005.

Board of directors, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Community Center, New York, 2008-10.

Featured interviewee for "Revising Gender," documentary for "In the Life." Aired in April on more than 240 stations.

Editorial board, GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, 2005-present.

Editorial board, Women's Studies Quarterly (WSQ), 2004-present.

Editorial Board, American Political Science Review, 2020-

Editorial Board, Polity, 2020-

Fellowship Reviewer: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada; American Council of Learned Societies; European Science Foundation, 2019-

Peer review for journals, including: American Political Science Review; Feminist Studies; Gender & Society; GLQ: A Journal of Gay and Lesbian Studies; Journal of Sex Research; Journal of Social Philosophy; Law and Society Inquiry; Men and Masculinitie; New Political Science; Polity; Politics, Groups, and Identities; Psychology and Sexuality; Radical History Review; Sex Roles; Sexuality Research and Social Policy; Signs; WSQ: Women's Studies Quarterly.

International editorial board, Sexuality Research and Social Policy, 2008-2020

"The Aimee Stephens Case: On the problem with describing a trans woman as an "insufficiently masculine" biological male." (Featured on Scotus blog.) October 15, 2019.

Currah, Paisley, general co-editor, Transgender Studies Quarterly, Duke University Press, 2011-2019.

Member of the Advisory Board, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Social Science and Public Policy Research Center at Roosevelt House, Hunter College, 2015-2019

Advisory board, Sexuality and Law, Social Science Research Network, 2008-2016.

Member, editorial advisory board, Biopolitics: Medicine, Technoscience, and Health in the Twenty-First Century, a series from New York University Press, 2007-2015.

Member, advisory board, Trans Bodies, Trans Selves, 2010-2014.

Grant reviewer, American Psychological Foundation's Placek Large Grant Program and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.

Senior tutor, International LGBT Summer Institute, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, August.

Member, advisory board, International Resource Network, a global community of teachers and researchers sharing knowledge about sexuality. 2007-09.

Peer review for Ford Foundation Latina/o Sexualities Research Agenda Project and Ford Foundation Black Sexuality Project.

Research consultant to Dean Spade's project, "Deregulating Gender: Model Policies for Transgender Equality," Sexuality Research Fellowship Program, sponsored by the Social Science Research Council with funding from the Ford Foudation, 2005-06.