Paisley Currah is
a Professor of Political Science and Women’s & Gender Studies at
Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New
York. Currah has written widely on transgender issues, including on
topics such as discrimination, sex reclassification, and the transgender
rights movement. He is the co-founder of the leading journal in
transgender studies, TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly. His
current book project looks at the contemporary legislative assaults on
transgender people, especially transgender youth, in the United States.
He is also working on an edited volume, with Blas Radi, on transgender
people and the state in the Americas. Currah has advocated for
transgender rights at all levels of government. He was a founding board
member of the Transgender Law and Policy Institute, served on the
founding board of directors of Global Action for Trans Equality, and sat
on the advisory board of Human Rights Watch’s LGBT Program. Currah
co-edited, with Shannon Minter and Richard Juang, Transgender Rights,
the first book on the movement for transgender rights, which won the
Sylvia Rivera Award in Transgender Studies and was a finalist for a
Lambda Literary Award. Currah received an MA and PhD in Government from
Cornell University and a BA (Hon.) in Political Studies from Queen's
University at Kingston, Canada. He also teaches for Columbia
University’s Institute for the Study of Human Rights.
