Guest Editors’ Introduction to the Issue

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¹Although there is not complete agreement on the use of “trans*,” like Catalano in this special issue, we use the term to incorporate a range of identities that might include, among others, people who identify as transsexual, transgender, genderqueer, Female to Male (FtM), Male to Female (MtF), or gender nonconforming.

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Notes on contributors

Maurianne Adams

Maurianne Adams is Professor Emerita of Education at the University of Massachusetts Amherst where she was a founding member of the Social Justice Education graduate faculty. Her current areas of primary interest include theorizing SJE, SJE pedagogy, cognitive development, religious oppression, and classism. Her research focuses on SJE learning outcomes. She co-edited and wrote sections for the three editions of Teaching for Diversity and Social Justice (Routledge, 1997, 2007, 2016), the three editions of Readings for Diversity and Social Justice (Routledge, 2000, 2010, 2013), and Strangers and Neighbors: Relations Between Blacks and Jews in the United States (University of Massachusetts Press, 2000). She has written on SJE for The Routledge International Handbook of Social Justice (2014) and The Praeger Handbook of Social Justice and Psychology (2014), and on other areas of interest in edited volumes. She was editor of the journal Equity & Excellence in Education and consults widely on social justice pedagogy, faculty development, religious oppression, and social justice and diversity issues on college campuses.

Rachel R. Briggs

Rachel R. Briggs has an M.Ed. in Social Justice Education and currently is a performance studies Ph.D. student in the Department of Communication and a Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies certificate student at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Her interdisciplinary research examines queer drag and burlesque performance with an emphasis on situating performances within a broader framework of power structures as they operate on the stage and in the relations between performers and audiences.