Assistant Professor
Bio
Dr. Hites-Thomas earned her doctorate in sociology from Simon Fraser University in British Columbia, Canada. Her scholarship examines the medical production of gender, race and the sexed body. In particular, she is interested in how normative categories such as cisgender, whiteness and binary sex (endosex) are constructed and naturalized through medical discourse. Her previous research focused on the medical and mental health gatekeeping of trans people seeking transition surgery compared to the enablement of cis people’s access to similar medical technologies such as augmentation phalloplasty. She specializes in cisgender and trans studies, queer theory, feminist science and technology studies, anti-racist feminism and medical sociology.