Kristen Schilt
Assistant Professor
Office: Social Sciences 320
Phone: 773-702-7753
Email: kschilt@uchicago.edu
CV: Curriculum Vita
Kristen Schilt’s research interests center on sociology of gender and sexualities, the sociology of culture, and the sociology of work and occupations. A central focus of her work is finding new ways to make visible the taken-for-granted cultural assumptions about gender and sexuality that serve to naturalize and reproduce social inequality. In 2010, she published the monograph, Just One of the Guys? Transgender Men and the Persistence of Gender Inequality (University of Chicago Press). In this book, she illustrates how the workplace experiences of transgender men can help to illuminate the organizational and interactional processes that contribute to the persistence of gender, race, and sexuality-based inequalities in the workplace.
Schilt’s current research is centered on three major areas. First, she is conducting longitudinal research on the ways in which gender and race shape the graduate experience. With colleagues at Rice University, she is tracking a cohort of graduate students who matriculated in 2007. This case study has received funding from the National Science Foundation and the American Sociological Association. Second, she is developing a set of survey questions designed to collect attitudinal data about transgender people. Third, she is conducting a comparative ethnographic study on major life transformations.
Journals
Professor Schilt is currently the Book Review Editor of The American Journal of Sociology and is on the board of Law & Social Inquiry.
Research Interests
Gender, Sexualities, Culture, Workplace Studies.
Selected Publications
Schilt, Kristen. 2010. Just One of the Guys? Transgender Men and the Persistence of Gender Inequality. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
"Doing Gender, Doing Heteronormativity: ‘Gender Normals,’ Transgender People, and the Social Maintenance of Heterosexuality.” With Laurel Westbrook. Gender & Society 23(4): 440-464.
"Teaching Transgender Issues." Tre Wentley, Kristen Schilt, Elroi Windsor, and Elizabeth Lucal. Teaching Sociology. 36 (1) 2008: 49-57.
"Access Denied." With Christine Williams. Men and Masculinities. 11 (2) 2008: 219-226.
"The Unfinished Business of Sexuality: Comment on Andersen." Gender & Society 22 (1) 2008: 109-114.
"Do Gender Transitions Make Gender Trouble?" With Catherine Connell. Gender, Work, & Organization. November 14 (6) 2007, 596 - 618.
"Just One of the Guys?: How Transmen Make Gender Visible in the Workplace." Gender & Society. 20 (4) 2006, 465-490.
"Is She Man Enough? Female Masculinity on The L Word." In Reading the L Word: Outing Contemporary Television. Ed. Kim Akass and Janet McCabe. New York: Palgrove, 2006: 153-179. (Co-authored with Candace Moore).
"Riot Grrrl Is: Contestations over Meaning in a Music Scene." In Music Scenes: Local, Translocal and Virtual. Ed. Andy Bennett and Richard Peterson. Nashville, TN: Vanderbilt Press. 2004. p. 115-130.
"‘I'll Resist with Every Inch and Every Breath': Girls and Zine-Making as a Form of Resistance." Youth and Society. 35 (1) 2003, 71-97.
