About V Varun Chaudhry, PhD

V (he/they) is currently an Assistant Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Brandeis University, where he teaches courses in transgender studies, sexuality and queer studies, and LGBTQ and feminist social movements. They have also worked as a consultant for Transponder Eugene, Girls Rock Philly, Bread and Roses Community Fund, and the Trans Justice Funding Project.

V received their doctorate in Cultural Anthropology, with a certificate in Gender and Sexuality Studies, from Northwestern University in 2019. V’s scholarship focuses on nonprofit organizations and foundations, transgender and gender nonconforming communities of color, and black feminism. His writing appears or is forthcoming in GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, Signs: Journal of Women and Culture in Society, Transgender Studies Quarterly (TSQ), Feminist Anthropology, American Anthropologist, and Critical Inquiry. V also authored TRANSForming Inclusion: An Organizational Guide, published by the Leeway Foundation in November 2018; Out in Research: A Guide to LGBTQ Market Research, published by Out in Research and Suzy, Inc. in 2021; and Funding Trans Resilience, published by the Gender Justice Fund - Philly in 2022.