Scholar
PJ is the author of Sideways Selves: Travesti and Jotería Struggles across the Américas. They have co-edited two books, Trans Philosophy and Speaking Face to Face: The Visionary Philosophy of María Lugones. As a scholar who straddles the boundaries between university and community, PJ reflects on acts of intellectual, political, and aesthetic creation among social groups who have often been barred or expelled from institutions of higher learning. PJ is in awe of people who, facing dispossession like she did in her childhood, cultivate, long for, and seek communal healing and care. In her writings and presentations, PJ gravitates toward scholarship that materializes the mysterious chemistries of selves-in-relation. PJ refuses to see, experience, and understand themself as the
sole creator of their writings. Explore other corners of PJ's nest and learn about what incubates within. If interested, check PJ's history of academic employment here.
Academic Employment
Listed according to chronological order and importance
Associate Professor. Women’s and Gender Studies Department, Syracuse University.
2022 - present
Director, LGBTQ Studies Program
Courtesy Appointment: Philosophy
Affiliations: Latino and Latin American Studies
Native American and Indigenous Studies
Assistant Professor. Women’s and Gender Studies Department, Syracuse University.
August 2014 - May 2021
Director, Undergraduate Studies
Affiliations: Latino and Latin American Studies
Native American and Indigenous Studies
LGBTQ Studies
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Visiting Assistant Professor. Department of Ethnic Studies, University of California-Berkeley.
July 2011 - June 2014
Affiliation: Chicano and Latino Studies
Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Humanities. Department of Ethnic Studies, University of California-Berkeley.
July 2011 - June 2014
Affiliation: Chicano and Latino Studies
Fellow. Townsend Center for the Humanities. University of California-Berkeley.
July 2011 - June 2012
Professor [guest position, non-tenure track]. Área de Género, Sociedad, y Políticas. Facultad Latinoamericana de las Ciencias Sociales (FLACSO) – Programa Regional de Formación en Género y Política (PRIGEPP).
2019 - present
Vice-Chair of Academic Affairs. PRIGEPP.
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Professor [guest position, non-tenure track]. Área de Género, Sociedad, y Políticas. Facultad Latinoamericana de las Ciencias Sociales (FLACSO) – Programa Regional de Formación en Género y Política (PRIGEPP).
2007 - present
Gender, TransGender, and Postgender. Dissident Policies and Politics across the Latin Americas.
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Gender(s) and Interculturality across the Americas.
Adjunct Professor. Community, Liberation, Indigenous, and Eco-Psychologies. Pacifica Graduate Institute.
2021 - present
Practicing Decoloniality and Anti-Racism.
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Depth Psychology of Violence and its Prevention.
Ross Dissertation Fellow. Binghamton University. State University of New York.
July 2010 - June 2011
Graduate Research Assistant. Global Studies Minor. Binghamton University. State University of New York.
July 2008 - June 2009
International Studies and Study Abroad Office.
Teaching Assistant. Philosophy, Interpretation, and Culture. Binghamton University. State University of New York.
2004 - 2008
Latina/o and Latin American Sexualities.
Introduction to Phenomenology.
Introduction to Philosophy.
Lecturer. School of Humanities and Social Sciences. National University of Jujuy.
2001 - 2005
Department of Social Communication.