Carly Thomsen, Assistant Professor of Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies

Carly Thomsen is an Assistant Professor of Gender, Sexuality, & Feminist Studies. She completed her Ph.D. in Feminist Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara and a postdoctoral fellowship at Rice University’s Center for the Study of Women, Gender, and Sexuality. She is currently writing a book on gay visibility politics and queer rurality and co-producing a documentary film on the same topic. Her dissertation received the Kenneth Sherrill Best Dissertation Award for work on sexuality and politics from the American Political Science Association, as well as the Lancaster Dissertation Award for the Social Sciences, an honor given once every two years at UCSB to the dissertation with the greatest potential for social impact. Thomsen’s research has been supported by various fellowships and grants, including the Woodrow Wilson Dissertation Fellowship. Her work on reproductive justice, LGBTQ activism, queer rurality, and feminist pedagogy is published in Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy, Feminist Studies, Feminist Formations, Queering the Countryside: New Frontiers in Rural Queer Studies, Atlantis: Critical Studies in Gender, Culture, and Social Justice, Twenty Years of Memorializing: The Cultural Legacy of Matthew Shepard, and The Oxford Handbook of Feminist Theory.