About Me

Xiaogao Zhou (He/They, pronounced Shaw-gaw Jow) is an Assistant Professor in Sociology at Bryn Mawr College. He received a PhD in Sociology and a certificate in Gender and Sexuality Studies from the University of Chicago. His work engages gender and sexuality, medicine, and transnational sociology, and science studies. His research examines how social institutions manage and regulate gender and sexually diverse people. His work has appeared in Social Problems, Social Science & Medicine, Journal of Homosexuality, among others. 

Xiaogao's book project, In Transition: Politics of Transgender Healthcare in China, examines the development of gender-affirming care in China using a multi-cited ethnography. This project received Richard Saller award for best dissertation from University of Chicago Division of the Social Sciences as well as the Roberta G. Simmons Outstanding Dissertation Award from the medical sociology section of the American Sociological Association. You can read more about the book project here.