Queer Politics Webinar: Born This Way and Brokering Identity

QPW - Oct 7  2021 Poster for SPIA
Date & Time Oct 07 2021 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM
Location Register Here
Speaker(s)
Joanna Wuest
Zein Murib
Audience Open to the Public, Registration Required

Joanna Wuest, Lecturer & Fund for Reunion-Cotsen Postdoctoral Fellow in the Society of Fellows

Born this Way: Science Citizenship, and Inequality in the American LGBTQ+ Movement

Joanna Wuest studies identity, inequality, and American political and constitutional development. At Princeton University, she holds the Fund for Reunion-Cotsen Postdoctoral Fellowship in LGBT Studies in the Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts. Her academic work has been published in Perspectives on Politics, Politics & Gender, Law & Social Inquiry, ​and nonsite, and her public writing has appeared in outlets including the Nation and Boston Review. She is currently writing a book based on this talk for the University of Chicago Press and another book on corporate power and minority rights struggles.

Zein Murib, they/them/theirs,  Assistant Professor of Political Science and  Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Fordham University

Brokering Identity: Citizenship, Rights, and the Construction of LGBT Political Identity in the US

Murib's research and teaching interests take an intersectional approach to questions of gender and sexuality, race, and political identity construction in US politics. Their research has been published in Politics, Groups, & Identities, Politics & Gender, New Political Science, Transgender Studies Quarterly, and a special issue of Administrative Theory & Praxis on gender and sexual identity and expression in public and nonprofit contexts. 

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