Zimman received his BA in Philosophy and MA in English with a Linguistics concentration from San Francisco State University.
[4][5] He has been widely recognized for his work on inclusive language reform and activism,[6][7][8] the relationship between the body, biological sex, and the voice,[9][10] and pronouns and singular they.
[11][12] Zimman is currently assistant professor of Linguistics & Affiliated Faculty in Feminist Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara.
He is also General Editor for Studies in Language, Gender, and Sexuality for Oxford University Press.
[1] In 2014, Zimman published a co-edited volume, Queer Excursions: Retheorizing Binaries in Language, Gender, and Sexuality (published by Oxford University Press), which won the Association for Queer Anthropology's Ruth Benedict Prize.