Lover of Ironweed, newborn calves, and crawfish, Jordan calls Appalachia home. When not incubating peachicks or fencing cattle, they excitedly await summer harvests to make pico de gallo and blackberry cobblers.
These roots continue to influence their scholarship as Jordan attempts to bring the storytelling of their childhood in the mountains to their academic work.
A doctoral student in The Harriet Tubman Department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Maryland, College Park ze currently works at the intersection of trans studies, physical cultural studies, and archival methods to explore the formation of trans-masculine identities in sporting spaces. Ze recently received the Barbara Brown Outstanding Student Doctoral Paper Award from the North American Society for the Sociology of Sport for their work on phenomenological understandings of transness. When they are not keeping up with their studies, you can find them playing rugby.
Trans studies’ impacts extend beyond the academy—trans theory and research are politically driven and touch every aspect of gendered life. Jordan seeks to bring attention to the connection between sports and the construction and continued (de)stabilization of the hierarchical gender binary. Past and present, gender transgressive athletes are Jordan’s peers, and they hope to gain valuable insight from grappling with their many stories. Jordan firmly believes sports are an avenue for identifying co-conspirators and agents of change. They carry these pedagogical goals and truths into their sports equity research to envision the potential political and social change that centers on fellow trans and gender non-conforming people.
