Assistant Professor Joss Greene wins L&S Research Innovation Award

This award honors faculty for exceptional achievement in research innovation. 

Joss Greene's forthcoming book discusses the management of trans prisoners and trans prisoners’ gendered self-presentation from the 1950s to the present. The project is based on 136 interviews with incarcerated trans people, who are hard to reach and difficult to identify, along with ethnographic observation and archival research. This innovative and difficult research has led to pathbreaking new sociological understandings of a uniquely vulnerable, and hidden, population. As Greene’s nominators explain, his “methods and contributions … bridge the divide between academic scholarship and community engagement,” and show how “the methods of qualitative sociology … can inform the professional practices of medicine and psychology.”