معرفی
Koda Sokol is a Visiting Assistant Professor at Davidson College in the Gender and Sexuality Studies department, serving a 2025–2027 term. They use he/they pronouns and are located in Dana 267. Their teaching focuses on gender theory, trans studies, queer crip studies, and anticolonial feminist theory.
Education:
- Ph.D. from University of California Santa Cruz
- M.Ed. from Harvard University
- B.A. from Brown University
Research Interests: Sokol applies an intersectional feminist lens to study transness, emotions, and identity, analyzing how affective bonds to violent norms shape gendered subjecthood. Their work interrogates victimhood in U.S. trans politics and explores pathways for collective liberation through critical social theory.
Key Contributions: They have written on dance as a metaphor for gender transition, racialized swamp ecologies, intra-trans desire, and queer/trans youth of color organizing. Their dissertation examines how victimhood operates in trans politics via xenogender communities, right-wing panics about "trans contagion," and anti-Zionist trans Jewish organizing.
