Aaron Devor Explained

Aaron Devor
Website:https://onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca/ahdevor/
Birth Date:1951
Occupation:Chair in Transgender Studies
Employer:University of Victoria

Aaron H. Devor is a Canadian sociologist and sexologist known for researching transsexuality and transgender communities.[1] Devor has taught at the University of Victoria since 1989 and is the former dean of graduate studies.[2] Devor is the current Chair in Transgender Studies at the University of Victoria, and the founder and subject matter expert of The Transgender Archives at the University of Victoria Libraries.[3] [4] He is also the founder and host of the Moving Trans History Forward conferences.[5] Maclean's, a Canadian weekly news magazine, described Devor as "an internationally respected expert on gender, sex and sexuality."[6]

Early life and education

Devor earned a bachelor's degree in psychology from York University in 1971, a master's degree in communications from Simon Fraser University in 1985, and a Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Washington in 1990. A trans man, Devor transitioned in 2002 at age 51.[7]

Career

Devor was a member of the HBIGDA task force which created the sixth and seventh edition of The Standards of Care. Currently, he sits as a committee member for the eighth edition and is the Chairperson of the Archives Committee. He has collected first-person narratives of transsexual experiences and has done extensive biographical research on trans man Reed Erickson.

Devor's book, The Transgender Archives: Foundations for the Future, was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award in the non-fiction category in 2015.[8]

In 2016, through the Tawani Foundation, Jennifer Pritzker gave a $2 million donation to create the world's first academic chair of transgender studies, at the University of Victoria in British Columbia;[9] Devor was chosen as the inaugural chair.[10]

Selected publications

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: FTM Contributions to Education and Spirituality . 2013-10-21 . 2013-10-21 . https://web.archive.org/web/20131021230230/http://www.computerconsultingservices.net/mensworld/images/Devor.htm . dead .
  2. [Hana Gartner|Gartner, Hana]
  3. News: Transgender studies chair at UVic will be world's first. 27 June 2016. CBC News. Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. January 15, 2016.
  4. News: University of Victoria announces world's first transgender studies chair. 27 June 2016. The Canadian Press. The Globe & Mail. January 15, 2016.
  5. Web site: 2014-03-25 . Victoria hosts first conference on archiving trans history Xtra Magazine . 2024-05-13 . en-CA.
  6. MacQueen, Ken (May 26, 2003). Understanding gender: Male and female may mean less today than ever, but they still mean plenty. Maclean's
  7. Web site: Presenters. Gender Odyssey. 2014-01-26. https://web.archive.org/web/20140329040921/http://www.genderodyssey.org/presenters/#devor. 2014-03-29. dead.
  8. Web site: Lambda Literary. . 4 March 2015.
  9. Web site: Transgender studies chair at UVic will be world's first . Jan 15, 2016 . CBC News . Oct 16, 2020 .
  10. Web site: Jennifer Pritzker's foundation donates $2 million for transgender studies . Rhodes . Dawn . Jan 19, 2016 . Chicago Tribune . Oct 16, 2020.

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