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Paisley Currah serves as Professor across three departments—Political Science, Women's and Gender Studies, and English—at Brooklyn College within the City University of New York (CUNY) system, with additional teaching responsibilities at the CUNY Graduate Center. His institutional affiliations highlight deep integration into interdisciplinary gender and political studies frameworks.
Currah's research centers on transgender studies, gender and sexuality law, and biopolitics, with particular focus on bureaucratic sex classification systems. His work examines how governmental entities—from the Department of Motor Vehicles to Homeland Security—construct contradictory frameworks for legal gender recognition, revealing how "sex" functions as an administrative category rather than biological fact. This approach moves beyond identity politics to analyze structural injustices in regulatory systems.
His influential publications include the 2022 monograph Sex Is as Sex Does: Governing Transgender Identity (NYU Press), which dissects the fragmented U.S. sex classification regime, alongside co-editing Transgender Rights (2006) and Corpus: An Interdisciplinary Reader on Bodies and Knowledge (2011). Currah co-founded TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly with Susan Stryker and serves on editorial boards for American Political Science Review, GLQ, Polity, and WSQ.
As an educator, Currah teaches courses on biopolitics and transgender theories at the CUNY Graduate Center. His current projects include editing an international collection on transgender experiences and developing a comparative analysis of transgender rights movements alongside feminist organizing. While specific grant details aren't provided, his editorial leadership and book publications demonstrate sustained scholarly impact.
