Chairs & Directors of Women's Studies at Barnard College

Women's Studies Department Faculty

PAISLEY CURRAH

Visiting Associate Professor

B.A. (Hon.) Queen's University at Kingston,
Canada, 1987

Phone: 212.854.2108

Office Address: 201A Barnard

Research and Teaching Interests

Paisley Currah's research focuses on the state constructions of legal sex, and challenges to those constructions. He has widely written on the legal status of transgender and gender nonconforming people in the US. In his current book project, The United States of Gender, (under contract with NYU Press), he looks at the contradictions produced when the "place of sex" comes up against the "time of gender" in sex designation cases. His teaching interests include sexuality, gender, queer and transgender studies; contemporary social and political theory; U.S. Constitutional law.

Publications

Edited Collections and Journal Special Issues:

Transgender Rights. Edited by Paisley Currah, Richard M. Juang, Shannon Price Minter. Minneapolis: Minnesota University Press, 2006.

“The State We’re In: Locations of Coercion and Resistance in Trans Policy.” Sexuality Research and Social Policy 4, no. 4 (December 2007) and 5, no. 1 (March 2008)

<a href="http://feministpress.org/book/?GCOI=55861100976030">Trans-,</a> a special issue of Women's Studies Quarterly 36, nos. 3 & 4 (December 2008), co-edited with Lisa Jean Moore and Susan Stryker.

Recent Articles:

“‘We Won’t Know Who You Are’: Contesting Sex Designations on New York City Birth Certificates.” With Lisa Jean Moore. Hypatia (forthcoming, summer 2009).

“The Transgender Rights Imaginary.” In Feminist and Queer Legal Theory: Intimate Encounters, Uncomfortable Conversations, eds. Martha Albertson Fineman, Jack E. Jackson, Adam P. Romero. Ashgate Press. (Forthcoming in 2009.)

“Expecting Bodies: The Pregnant Man and Transgender Exclusion from the Employment Non-Discrimination Act.” Women’s Studies Quarterly 36, nos. 3 & 4 (December 2008): 330-336.

“Gender Pluralisms Under the Transgender Umbrella.” In Transgender Rights, eds. Paisley Currah, Richard M. Juang and Shannon Price Minter, 3-31. Minneapolis: Minnesota University Press, 2006.

Women's Studies Teaching

WMST W4309 Advanced Topics in Women's & Gender Studies: Sex, Gender & Transgender Queries

Activist Interests

Founder and Board Member, Transgender Law and Policy Institute

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)

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