About Me

Xiaogao Zhou (He/They, pronounced Shaw-gaw Jow) is  Assistant Professor in Sociology at Bryn Mawr College. He received PhD in Sociology and certificate in Gender and Sexuality Studies from 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 dissertation examines the development of gender-affirming care in China using a multi-cited ethnography. Specifically, He ask: 1) How does the gender-affirming care model gain traction within the Chinese healthcare landscape? and 2) How do various stakeholders, including healthcare providers, activists, transgender individuals, and their families, navigate this new approach to transgender medicine? Answers to these questions illuminate China's complex relations with global changes, offering insights into transnational and local dynamics reproducing challenges for transgender and gender-nonconforming people.