Tuesday, February 9
Muriel Vernon, “Enculturating Transgender Medicine and Deconstructing the Down Low: An Anthropological Engagement with Genital Reassignment Surgery and MSM Sexuality”
Yeager Recital Hall, 7 p.m.
Vernon will present an overview of her research focusing primarily on the ethnographic nature of anthropological knowledge production. Her talk will address some ethnographic method applications and resulting insights from her research with transgender women and MSM, and she will briefly outline her upcoming plans for research on transgender teens.