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Emily Skidmore is an associate professor, a researcher and the author of True Sex. She is currently a history professor at Texas Tech University where she is also the director of graduate studies.[1][2]

Biography

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For her award-winning book True Sex: The Lives of Trans Men at the Turn of the Twentieth Century, Skidmore gathered historical evidence of trans men in the United States from the 1876 to 1936 using newspapers and census and court documents.[3] Some of the trans men documented included Joseph Lobdell and Ralph Kerwineo.[3] Rorotoko featured Skidmore and her book in a cover interview discussing her discovery of historical records of trans men in rural areas.[4] True Sex marks a historical deviation from the normative argument of that queer folks generally move to cities. Skidmore argues that the history of queer America may look different than the stories that currently predominate.[4] She has been extensively quoted in the works of others such as Kritika Agarwal's 2018 article in Perspectives on trans history.[5][6] The book has been extensively reviewed with commentary supporting the possibility of reframing the history of queer people in the United States.[7][8]

Skidmore's works center on LGBTQ2+ issues, with a focus of transgender history. Some of Skidmore's works have an intersectional approach and she has had twelve articles been published in ten journals.[9][10] Skidmore's work has been included in A Companion to American Women's History[11][12][13] and her historical perspective has also been interviewed and quoted regarding the origins of the American women's suffrage movement.[14] She has contributed to the creation of the Global Encyclopedia of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer (LGBTQ) History, as an editor.[15]

Skidmore's 2004 B.A. from Macalester College and 2011 Ph.D. from University of Illinois were both in history.[1] She is currently an associate professor in history at the Texas Tech University.[1]

Skidmore has been featured in podcasts with Marshall Poe in 2019[16][17] and Backstory.[18][1]

Works

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Books

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  • Author, True Sex: The Lives of Trans Men at the Turn of the Twentieth Century ISBN 9781479870639[19]
  • Editor, Global Encyclopedia of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer (LGBTQ) History, 1st Edition ISBN 9780684325545 [15]

Selected articles

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  • Skidmore, E. (2011). Constructing the "Good Transsexual": Christine Jorgensen, Whiteness, and Heteronormativity in the Mid-Twentieth-Century Press. Feminist Studies, 37(2), 270–300.[20]
  • Skidmore, E (2011). Exceptional queerness: defining the boundaries of normative U.S. citizenship, 1876-1936 (Thesis). University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.[21]

Online works

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Awards

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  • 2019, President's Faculty Book Award from Texas Tech University[22]
  • 2018, U.S. History PROSE Award winner for True Sex: The Lives of Trans Men at the Turn of the Twentieth Century.[2]
  • 2018, Outstanding Teaching award from the History Graduate Student Association at Texas Tech University.[2]
  • 2016, Audre Lorde prize winner for her article Ralph Kerwineo’s Queer Body: Narrating the Scales of Social Membership in the Early Twentieth Century[23].

References

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  1. ^ a b c d "Emily Skidmore". Texas Tech University. Retrieved Feb 21, 2021.
  2. ^ a b c https://www.depts.ttu.edu/provost/scholars/2020/SkidmoreCV2020.pdf [bare URL PDF]
  3. ^ a b Skidmore, Emily (2017). True sex : the lives of trans men at the turn of the twentieth century. New York. ISBN 978-1-4798-7063-9. OCLC 982435476.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  4. ^ a b "ROROTOKO : Emily Skidmore On her book True Sex: The Lives of Trans Men at the Turn of the Twentieth Century : Cutting-Edge Intellectual Interviews". rorotoko.com. 16 October 2017. Retrieved 2021-02-22.
  5. ^ "Emily Skidmore (PhD, 2011) Quoted Extensively in a Recent Issue of "Perspectives"". Department of History. University of Illinois. Retrieved 2021-02-22.
  6. ^ Kritika Agarwal (May 1, 2018). "What is Trans History?". Perspectives on History. Retrieved 2021-02-22.
  7. ^ "Review of Emily Skidmore's 'True Sex: The Lives of Trans Men at the Turn of the 20th Century' | Inside Higher Ed". www.insidehighered.com. Retrieved 2021-02-22.
  8. ^ Sigurdson, Norm (2017-09-28). "Book Review – TRUE SEX: The Lives of Trans Men at the Turn of the Twentieth Century by EMILY SKIDMORE". bookworm norm. Retrieved 2021-02-22.
  9. ^ "Emily Skidmore". scholar.google.com. Retrieved 2021-02-22.
  10. ^ "Reviews of "True Sex"". Texas Tech University. Retrieved 2021-02-21.
  11. ^ Nancy A. Hewitt; Anne M. Valk (2021). A companion to American women's history (Second ed.). Hoboken, NJ. ISBN 978-1-119-52269-0. OCLC 1202469665.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  12. ^ Skidmore, Emily (2020), "Recovering a Gender-Transgressive Past", A Companion to American Women's History, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, pp. 209–222, doi:10.1002/9781119522690.ch13, ISBN 978-1-119-52269-0, S2CID 228892075, retrieved 2021-02-22
  13. ^ "Frontmatter", A Companion to American Women's History, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, pp. i–xviii, 2005, doi:10.1002/9780470998595.fmatter, ISBN 978-0-470-99859-5, retrieved 2021-02-22
  14. ^ "Women's Suffrage Was More Than A Century In the Making | Texas Tech Today | TTU". today.ttu.edu. Retrieved 2021-02-22.
  15. ^ a b Howard Chiang; Anjali Arondekar; Marc Epprecht; Jennifer Evans; Ross G. Forman; Hanadi Al-Samman; Emily Skidmore; Zeb Tortorici, eds. (2019). Global encyclopedia of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) history. Farmington Hills, MI. ISBN 978-0-684-32554-5. OCLC 1080321952.{{cite encyclopedia}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  16. ^ "Emily Skidmore - Top podcast episodes". Listen Notes. Retrieved 2021-02-21.
  17. ^ "New Books in Gender Studies". Listen Notes. Retrieved 2021-02-21.
  18. ^ "The Language of Transgender History and Visibility". BackStory. 28 November 2016. Retrieved 2021-02-21.
  19. ^ "True Sex". NYU Press. Retrieved 2021-02-21.
  20. ^ Skidmore, Emily (2011). "Constructing the "Good Transsexual": Christine Jorgensen, Whiteness, and Heteronormativity in the Mid-Twentieth-Century Press". Feminist Studies. 37 (2): 270–300. ISSN 0046-3663. JSTOR 23069901.
  21. ^ E., Skidmore, Emily (2011-08-26). Exceptional queerness: defining the boundaries of normative U.S. citizenship, 1876-1936 (Thesis). University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. hdl:2142/26334.{{cite thesis}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  22. ^ "2019 Convocation and Awards". Texas Tech University. Retrieved 2021-02-21.
  23. ^ "Audre Lorde Prize | The Committee on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History". Retrieved 2021-02-22.
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