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Billard is the Executive Director of the Center for Applied Transgender Studies—the leading academic organization dedicated to scholarship on the social, cultural, and political conditions of transgender life.
Coston's research examines how the intersections of race, class, and gender create differing experiences of marginalization and oppression for people who are LGBTQ.
Johnson is the author of two award-winning books that chronicle the complex relationship between rise of the LGBT movement and recurring government-sponsored moral panics about it.
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Marhoefer is a historian of trans people in early 20th century Germany as well as across the 20th century in the US, Germany and elsewhere. Their work on trans people and queer people has been internationally influential in debates about the Holocaust as well as in other respects.
Murib's research focuses on the politics of race, sexuality, and gender. Murib's forthcoming book is Terms of Exclusion: Rightful Citizenship Claims and the Construction of LGBT Political Identity.
Pfeffer's research is at the intersection of critical inquiry into contemporary families, genders, health, sexualities, and bodies considered marginal, as well as social actors’ management of stigma and discrimination processes.
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