Perry Zurn, Provost Associate Professor of Philosophy at American University, and affiliate faculty in the Department of Critical Race, Gender, and Culture Studies, the Honors Program, and the Antiracist Research and Policy Center, will present "Cis Goes Mainstream” at the Cornell Political Theory Workshop. Papers are circulated on an email list in advance and participants come prepared to discuss them.

Perry Zurn is Provost Associate Professor of Philosophy at American University, and affiliate faculty in the Department of Critical Race, Gender, and Culture Studies, the Honors Program, and the Antiracist Research and Policy Center. Zurn is currently Fellow at the Society for the Humanities at Cornell University ('23-'24) and a visiting scholar at The Center for Research in Feminist, Queer, and Transgender Studies at the University of Pennsylvania ('23-'25). He researches primarily in political philosophy, critical theory, and transgender studies, and collaborates in psychology and network neuroscience. He is the author of Curiosity and Power: The Politics of Inquiry (2021) and How We Make Each Other: Trans Poetics at the Edge of the University (Duke, forthcoming), as well as the co-author of Curious Minds: The Power of Connection (MIT Press, 2022). He is also the co-editor of Trans Philosophy: Meaning and Mattering (forthcoming 2024), Curiosity Studies: A New Ecology of Knowledge (2020), and Active Intolerance: Michel Foucault, the Prisons Information Group, and the Future of Abolition (2016), as well as the co-editor and co-translator of Intolerable: Writings from Michel Foucault and the Prisons Information Group, 1970-1980 (2021). He is currently writing two books, one on the philosophy of gender and another on the term "cisgender".

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To find out more information, go to http://government.cornell.edu/political-theory-workshop.

For the 2023-2024 academic year, the Political Theory Workshop is generously supported by the Africana Studies and Research Center, the American Studies Program, the Department of Anthropology, the Department of Classics, the Department of Comparative Literature, the Department of German Studies, the Department of Government, the Department of History, the Jewish Studies Program, the Latina/o Studies Program, the Department of Literatures in English, the Sage School of Philosophy, the Department of Romance Studies, and the Society for the Humanities.