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Southern Oregon University

Sociology Program

Kylan M. de Vries, Assistant Professor

Education:

Ph.D.	Sociology, Southern Illinois University Carbondale (SIUC), Carbondale, IL 2010 Dissertation Title: Multiple Axes of Social Location and Transpeople: Interrogating the Concept of "Intersectionality."
Graduate Certificate	Women's Studies, Southern Illinois University Carbondale, Carbondale, IL 2008
MA	Sociology, Southern Illinois University Carbondale, Carbondale, IL 2007 Thesis Title: Exclusion/Inclusion in Developing Collective Identity
BA	Communication, Antioch University Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA 2000

Teaching Interest:

Critical Race Studies

Intersectionality: Gender, Race, Sexuality, Social Class, and Nationality

Transgender Studies

Queer Studies

Sociology of Gender

Qualitative Research Methods

Social Psychology

Identity

Social Problems

Inequalities

Research Interest:

Critical Race Studies

Intersectionality

Transgender Studies

Queer Studies

Ethnography

Social Psychology (with emphasis on Identity, Collective Identity, and Symbolic Interactionism)

Inequalities

Recent Publication/Work in Progress:

In Progress	"Changing Race, Changing Gender: Mixed-Race Positionality"
Under Review	"Interconnecting Structural Inequalities: A Multidimensional analysis of Transgender People of Color's Narratives"
2012	"Intersectional Identities and Conceptions of the Self: the Experience of Transgender People." Symbolic Interaction 35(1): 49-67
2011	"Religion, Politics, and Support for same-Sex Marriage in the United States: 1988-2008." Social Science Research 40(1):167-180. Co-writers: Sherkat, Darren E.; Powell-Williams, Melissa; Maddox, Gregory R.
2010	"Race, Religion, and Opposition to Same-Sex Marriage." Social Science Quarterly 91(1): 80-98. Co-writers: Sherkat, Darren E. and Creek, SJ.
2009	"Berdache/Two-Spirit." Encyclopedia of Gender & Society, edited by Jodi O'Brien. Thousand Oaks, Ca: SAGE Publications.