Paisley Currah Ph.D. | |
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Born | Ontario, Canada |
Nationality | American/Canadian |
Occupation(s) | Professor, writer, editor |
Board member of | Transgender Studies Quarterly |
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Institutions | Brooklyn College |
Paisley Currah is political scientist and author, known for his work on the transgender rights movement. His book, Sex Is as Sex Does: Governing Transgender Identity (NYU Press, 2022) examines the politics of sex classification in the United States. He is a professor of political science and women's and gender studies at Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.[1] He was born in Ontario, Canada, received a B.A. (Hons, First Class) from Queen's University at Kingston, Ontario and an M.A and Ph.D. in government from Cornell University. He lives in Brooklyn.