Toby started following 3 journals.
Toby started following the work of Ronak Kapadia, New York University, Social and Cultural Analysis.
Toby started following the work of Craig Willse, The College of Wooster, Sociology and Anthropology.
University of California, San Diego
Post-Doc, Communciation
Lionel Cantú Memorial Fellow, UC President's Postdoctoral Fellowship Program
Thesis Title: Going Stealth: Transgender Bodies and U.S. Surveillance Practices
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David Serlin, postdoc mentor
Caren Kaplan, dissertation chair Gayatri Gopinath and Colin Milburn, committee members |
About
I am a UC President's Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Communication at UC San Diego. I completed my Ph.D. in Cultural Studies at UC Davis in 2010, with a designated emphasis in Feminist Theory and Research.
I am currently revising my dissertation into a book manuscript, which considers the ways U.S.-based surveillance has been deployed in relation to transgender and gender-nonconforming bodies and populations. While focusing on surveillance mechanisms such as identification documents and biometrics that have been widely discussed in the context of the global war on terror, I also contextualize these practices as rooted in long histories of bodily classification, militarization, and shifting constructions of deviance. At its heart, this project aims to show how transgender and gender-nonconforming bodies are inextricably bound up with questions of nationalism, state security, and military and government constructions of safety. Rather than continuing to position trans and gender-nonconforming bodies as objects of curiosity and scientific scrutiny, I instead use the critical lens of transgender studies to examine ruptures and inconsistencies in state, medical, media and legal surveillance practices.
Beyond this manuscript, I am pursuing a book-length project on the transnational production and circulation of hormones, which aims to bring a transgender studies critique to bear on sites and practices from which the category of transgender is nominally absent. Broadly, this project focuses on the arenas of immigration and border control policy, military history and strategy, national health initiatives, and international sport.
My research and teaching interests include transgender and queer theory, science and technology studies, transnational feminist cultural studies, disability studies, and processes of militarization.
