Previously a Senior Lecturer at Vanderbilt University, he received a PhD in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies from Emory University in 2010. His research and teaching interests include critical intersex studies; feminist and queer theory; the history of science; the history of gender, race, and sexuality; LGBT studies; transnational feminisms; masculinity studies; and disability studies. His essays and articles have appeared in Palimpsest: A Journal on Women, Gender, and the Black International; Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society; A Companion to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Studies; and Women’s Studies for the Future: Foundations, Interrogations, Politics.