Joss Greene

Education

• Ph.D. Sociology, Columbia University, 2021
• M.A. Sociology, Columbia University, 2016
• M.A. Women's & Gender Studies, Rutgers University, 2015
• B.A. History and Gender Studies (double major), Scripps College, 2011

About

Dr. Joss Greene is a qualitative researcher who studies gender, punishment, labor, and social change.  He has researched transgender people's experiences with prisons, reentry, work, and community care.  He has also written several papers about parole boards. He has published award-winning articles in the American Journal of Sociology, Signs, Social Problems, Theoretical Criminology, and Theory & Society, among other journals.  His book about histories of trans existence and resistance in California prisons is under contract with the University of California Press. His newest work is a community-engaged research project about activism during the COVID-19 pandemic.   

Research Focus

Gender & Sexuality; Race & Ethnicity; Punishment; Organizations; Social Movements

Selected Publications

• Greene, Joss and Woods Ervin. 2024. "The cost of crossing gender boundaries: Trans women of color and the racialized workplace gender order." Gender, Work & Organizations. doi: 10.1111/gwao.13108
• Greene, Joss. 2023. “The Insurgent Agency of Incarcerated Trans Women of Color.” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 48(4):873–96. doi: 10.1086/724237.
• Greene, Joss. 2023. “Gender Bound: Making, Managing, and Navigating Prison Gender Boundaries, 1941–2018.” American Journal of Sociology 128(4):993–1030. doi: 10.1086/723433.
• Greene, Joss, and Isaac Dalke. 2020. “‘You’re Still an Angry Man’: Parole Boards and Logics of Criminalized Masculinity.” Theoretical Criminology. doi: 10.1177/1362480620910222.
• Greene, Joss T. 2019. “Categorical Exclusions: How Racialized Gender Regulation Reproduces Reentry Hardship.” Social Problems 66(4):548–63. doi: 10.1093/socpro/spy023.

Selected Awards

• Distinguished Article Award, ASA Section on the Sociology of Sex & Gender, 2024
• Best Article Award, ASA Section on the Body and Embodiment, 2024
• Publication Award for Significant Contributions to Applied and Public Sociology, ASA Section on Sociological Practice and Public Sociology, 2022
• Research Justice at the Intersections Scholar, Mills College, 2021-2022
• Arlene Kaplan Daniels Paper Award for the best paper on women and social justice, Society for the Study of Social Problems, 2020
• Dr. Devon T. Wade Mentorship and Service Award, Graduate School of Arts & Sciences, Columbia University, 2019
• Dissertation Fellowship, Center for Engaged Scholarship, 2018-2019
• Charles Tilly Award for Outstanding Teaching and Scholarship, Sociology Department, Columbia University, 2017