Jules Gill-Peterson

Jules Gill-Peterson is a Canadian historian specializing in transgender history. She is an associate professor of history at Johns Hopkins University. Her work focuses on how science, medicine, and race inform transgender embodiment. Her best-known work is Histories of the Transgender Child, which documents the 20th-century history of transgender childhood in the United States, and received the 2019 Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Nonfiction. 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.