Jules Gill-Peterson is a Canadian historian specializing in transgender history.
Her work focuses on how science, medicine, and race inform transgender embodiment.
[1] She is a general co-editor of Transgender Studies Quarterly, and previously served as a research fellow at the American Council of Learned Societies and at the Kinsey Institute.
She was advised by Professor Frances Bartkowski for her dissertation Queer Theory is Kid Stuff: A Genealogy of the Gay and Transgender Child.
In 2020, she received a Chancellor’s Distinguished Research Award from the University of Pittsburgh, where she previously served as a faculty member.