Dr. Z Nicolazzo (http://cedu.niu.edu/cahe/about/faculty/z-nicolazzo.shtml) will be joining CES from 6-10 June 2016 on an IAS-funded Residential Fellowship, which has resulted from ongoing collaboration with Dr Emily Henderson (CES).

Dr Nicolazzo is Assistant Professor in the Adult and Higher Education programme and a faculty associate in the Center for the Study of Women, Gender, and Sexuality, at Northern Illinois University, US. Z gained hir PhD in Student Affairs in Higher Education, with a graduate certificate in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, from Miami University in 2015, before taking up the post at NIU. Z’s research agenda is focused on mapping gender across higher education contexts, with particular attention to trans* students, as well as the intersections of race, gender, sexuality, and disability. Z’s book, Trans* in College: Transgender Students’ Strategies for Navigating Campus Life and the Institutional Politics of Inclusion, which details hir 18-month ethnographic research project alongside trans* university students in the United States, is forthcoming from Stylus Publishing (2016).

- During hir visit, Dr Nicolazzo will be presenting a CES research seminar, co-hosted by CSWG (Centre for the Study of Women and Gender), entitled: ‘Imagining a Trans* Epistemology: Unlearning Gender Binary Discourse in Education’. Monday 6^th June, 12:30-1pm light lunch, 1-2:15pm seminar and discussion. Room C1.11 (CES, Social Sciences Building).

Please sign up here for the seminar (for the purpose of ordering refreshments) and sign up for the workshop here.

- Dr Nicolazzo will also be leading a research workshop for CES and CSWG research students and early career researchers on ‘Rethinking “The Field”: The Politics of Entering, Leaving, and Doing Justice Alongside Marginalized Populations through Fieldwork’. Wednesday 8^th June, 10:30am-12:30pm workshop. Room R0.03/04 (Ramphal).