His research interests include queer theory, gender and transgender studies, and scientific understandings of gender/sexuality. Aizura, who hails from Australia, earned a PhD in cultural studies from the University of Melbourne and before joining ASU was a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Women's and Gender Studies and the Institute for Research on Women at Rutgers University. Aizura's interdisciplinary research looks at how queer and transgender bodies shape and are shaped by technologies of race, gender, transnationality, medicalization and political economy. He studies gender reassignment surgery tourism in Thailand and elsewhere; trans and queer migration, especially queer/trans involvement in transnational economies of care work; and looking at the circuitry of nationalism, and biopolitics and value as they relate to gender variant life.