Kristen Schilt is a professor of sociology and Associate Professor Director of the Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality at the University of Chicago. Schilt focuses on finding ways to make visible the taken-for-granted cultural assumptions about gender and sexuality that serve to naturalize and reproduce social inequality. ^[1]

Schilt strives for her student to have an equal voice in everything that they do, but that all had to start with her being educated as well. Schilt received her B.A. from the University of Texas at Austin; Sociology and her Ph.D. from the University of California-Los Angeles, CA; Sociology. "Her research has been funded by the National Science Foundation and the Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society at the University of Chicago. She received a 2013–2014 Andrew Mellon Collaborative Fellowship for Arts Practice and Scholarship from the Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry."^[2] Following her getting her B.A and Ph.D. Schilt worked at Rice University as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow. Then in 2008 Schilt worked as the Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Chicago, then 7 years later she became the Associate Professor of Sociology.

In an interview by Brooke O'Neill,^[3] Schilt talked about what she liked most about teaching and what she found to be special about teaching UChicago grad students. Schilt stated, "there’s something really exciting about seeing students come to a different kind of understanding. Maybe they’re going to end up back where they started—that’s fine—but they’ve gone on a journey. Seeing a change in the quality of work people hand in over the quarter or seeing them grasp a complex theoretical concept as you discuss it in class are really rewarding moments." In addition, "^[4]one thing that’s unique about Chicago is that while it’s a research-intensive university, it’s also a place where people are really focused on teaching. At many universities winning a teaching award would be kind of ho-hum, but here my department was really excited for me. That’s what is really fantastic about this place: People are superb researchers, and they also pride themselves on being superb teachers. Of course, we also get fantastic graduate students, who make it very easy to do this work." Her biggest goal as a sociologist and as an educator is to foster a community, seeing everyone's learning journey and seeing students grasp complex concepts.

She has done some creative projects, one being, "Framing Anges" an experimental film, co directed with Chase Joynt in 2018. Second being, "Gaming Orientation" an alternative reality game that she co-directed with Patrick Jagoda and Heidi Colman, from January 2017 to September 2018.

• Other, Please Specify; Queer Methods in Sociology. Co-editor with D’Lane Compton and Tey Meadow. 2018. University of California Press.

• Kristen Schilt. 2010. Just One of the Guys? Transgender Men and the Persistence of Gender Inequality. University of Chicago Press.

"The fact that men and women continue to receive unequal treatment at work is a point of contention among politicians, the media, and scholars. Common explanations for this disparity range from biological differences between the sexes to the conscious and unconscious biases that guide hiring and promotion decisions. Just One of the Guys? sheds new light on this phenomenon by analyzing the unique experiences of transgender men—people designated female at birth whose gender identity is male—on the job."^[6]

"Kristen Schilt draws on in-depth interviews and observational data to show that while individual transmen have varied experiences, overall their stories are a testament to systemic gender inequality. The reactions of coworkers and employers to transmen, Schilt demonstrates, reveal the ways assumptions about innate differences between men and women serve as justification for discrimination. She finds that some transmen gain acceptance—and even privileges—by becoming “just one of the guys,” that some are coerced into working as women or marginalized for being openly transgender, and that other forms of appearance-based discrimination also influence their opportunities. Showcasing the voices of a frequently overlooked group, Just One of the Guys? lays bare the social processes that foster forms of inequality that affect us all."^[6]

• Kristen Schilt and Danya Lagos. 2017. “The Development of Transgender Studies in Sociology.” Annual Review of Sociology. 43: 425-443

• Cayce Hughes, Kristen Schilt, Bridget Gorman, and Jenifer Bratter. 2017. “Framing the Faculty Gender Gap: A View from STEM Graduate Students.” Gender, Work and Organization. 24(4): 398-416

• Chase Joynt and Kristen Schilt. 2015. “Anxiety in the Archive.” TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly. 2 (4): 635-644.

• Kristen Schilt and Jenifer Bratter. 2015. “From Multiracial to Transgender? Assessing Attitudes toward a Transgender Category on the U.S. Census.” TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly (Special Issue: Making Transgender Count). 2(1), 77-100.

• Laurel Westbrook and Kristen Schilt. 2014. “Doing Gender, Determining Gender.” Gender & Society 28 (1): 32-57 (equal authorship).

* Distinguished Article Winner. ASA Sex & Gender section. 2016.

• Kristen Schilt and Elroi Windsor. 2014. “Negotiating Sexuality Through Gender: The Sexual Habitus of Transgender Men.” Journal of Homosexuality: Special Issue on Trans Sexualities. 61(5): 732-748.

• Kristen Schilt and Laurel Westbrook. 2009. “Doing Gender, Doing Heteronormativity: ‘Gender Normals,’ Transgender People, and the Social Maintenance of Heterosexuality.” Gender & Society 23 (4): 440-464. (equal authorship).

* Distinguished Article Winner. ASA Sex & Gender section. 2010.

• Kristen Schilt and Matthew Wiswall. 2008. “Before and After: Gender Transitions, Human Capital, and Workplace Experiences.” The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy. 8(1): 1-28.

• Tre Wentley, Kristen Schilt, Elroi Windsor, and Elizabeth Lucal. 2008. “Teaching Transgender Issues.” Teaching Sociology. 36 (1) 49-57

• Kristen Schilt and Catherine Connell. 2007. “Do Gender Transitions Make Gender Trouble?” Gender, Work, & Organization. November 14 (6) 596 - 618

• Kristen Schilt. 2006. “Just One of the Guys?: How Transmen Make Gender Visible in the Workplace.” Gender & Society. 20 (4) 465-490.

• Oscar Grusky, Kathleen Johnston Roberts, Aimee Noelle Swanson, Elizabeth Joniak, Jennifer Leich, Gwen McEvoy, Keith Murphy, Kristen Schilt, Valerie Wilson. 2005. “Anonymous versus Confidential HIV Testing: Client and Provider Decision Making Under Uncertainty.” AIDS Patient Care and STDs. 19(3): 157-166.

• Kristen Schilt. 2004. “AM/FM Activism: Taking National Tools to a Local Level.” Gay and Lesbian Journal of Social Services.16 (3/4) 181-192

• Kristen Schilt. 2003. “‘I’ll Resist with Every Inch and Every Breath’: Girls and Zine-Making as a Form of Resistance.” Youth and Society. 35 (1) 71-97. 3

• Kristen Schilt. 2003. “ ‘A Little Too Ironic’: The Appropriation and Packaging of Radical Feminism by the New Angry Women in Rock.” Popular Music and Society. 26 (1) 5-19.

• “Framing Agnes” experimental film. Co-director with Chase Joynt, 2018

• “Gaming Orientation,” Alternate Reality Game co-directed with Patrick Jagoda and Heidi Coleman. January 2017-September 2018

• Kristen Schilt. 2016. “The Importance of Being Agnes.” Symbolic Interaction. 39 (2): 287- 294.

• Kristen Schilt and Laurel Westbrook. 2015. “Bathroom Battleground and Penis Panics.” Contexts. Summer. http://contexts.org/articles/bathroom-battlegrounds-and-penis-panics/

• Kristen Schilt and Jody Herman. 2013. “Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Workers.” With Jody Herman. The Sociology of Work: An Encyclopedia. Ed. Vicky Smith. Sage.

• Kristen Schilt. 2009. “Faeries, Bears, and Leathermen, Oh My!” Sex Roles, August.

• Kristen Schilt. 2009. Entries on “Passing,” “Harry Benjamin,” “Christine Jorgensen,” “Stealth,” and “Transgender,” in The Encyclopedia of Gender & Society. Ed. Jodi O’Brien. Sage Publications.

• Karl Bryant and Kristen Schilt. 2008. “Transgender People in the U.S. Military: Summary and Analysis of the 2008 Transgender Americans Veterans Association Survey.” Santa Barbara, CA: The Palm Center

• Kristen Schilt. 2008. “Working Construction: How White Working Class Men Put Themselves – and the Labor Movement – in Harm’s Way.” American Journal of Sociology. 113 (4), 1193-5.

• Kristen Schilt. 2006. “Changing Corporate America from Inside Out: Lesbian and Gay Workplace Rights.” Review of Nicole Raeburn. Work & Occupations 33: 122-124 5

• Kristen Schilt. 2005. “Self-Made Men: Transsexual Identity and Embodiment” Review of Henry Rubin. Gender & Society 19 (1), 122-123.

• Kristen Schilt. 2002. “Voices of Reason: Adolescents Talk About Their Futures over Time.” Review of Stephen Sachs. Contemporary Sociology 31 (6)

• Kristen Schilt, “Sex and the Sociological Dope: Garfinkel’s Intervention into the Disciplines of Sex/Gender.” book chapter in edited volume on Harold Garfinkel. Edited by John Heritage and Douglas Maynard. Under review with Oxford University Press.

• Kristen Schilt. Before and After: The Social Processes of Major Life Changes. Book manuscript in progress.

• American Sociological Association Section for Sex and Gender. Best Article Prize 2016 for “Doing Gender, Determining Gender.”

• American Sociological Association Section for Sex and Gender, Distinguished Book Award Honorable Mention, 2013 for Just One of the Guys.

• University of Chicago, Llewellyn John and Harriet Manchester Quantrell Awards for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, 2013.

• University of Chicago. Faculty Award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching and Mentorship, 2012.

• Lambda Literary Award. Finalist. 2011. Just One of the Guys. Best Transgender NonFiction

• American Sociological Association Section for Sex and Gender. Best Article Prize 2010 for “Doing Gender, Doing Heteronormativity.”

• Center for Gay and Lesbian Studies, Columbia University’s Sylvia Rivera Award in Transgender Studies. 2007. Honorable Mention. “Just One of the Guys?: How Transmen Make Gender in the Workplace Visible.”

• Sociologist for Women in Society’s Cheryl Allan Miller Award for Best Graduate Student Paper in the Area of Gender and Work. 2005. “Just One of the Guys?: Female-to-Male Transsexuals in the Workplace.”

• The Society for the Study of Social Problems Health Division Graduate Student Paper Award. 2005. “From Trapped in the Wrong Body to Freed in the Right Body: Transsexual Men’s Pursuit of an Appropriately Gendered Body.”

• American Sociological Association. Sex and Gender Section. Martin Levine Dissertation Award. 2003.Honorable Mention “Transsexuality in Context: The Variable Meaning of Transition.

• Radcliffe Institute Fellow: Matina S. Horner Distinguished Visiting Professor. Harvard University. 2016-2017
• Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society. Faculty Research Grant, 2016-2019
• Mellon Fellowship in Arts Practice and Scholarship, 2013-2014
• Social Science Divisional Grant ($4,000). University of Chicago 2013-2014
• Social Science Divisional Grant ($3,000). University of Chicago 2012-2013
• Social Science Divisional Grant ($3,000). University of Chicago 2011-2012
• Center for Gender Studies Faculty Fellow, 2010-2011
• Kristen Schilt (Co-PI), Bridget Gorman (Co-PI), and Jenifer Bratter (Co-investigator). “Gender and Racial Differences in the Graduate School Experience.”
• 2007-2009 (waves 1&2) funded by the NSF ADVANCE Mini-Grant Program, Rice University. Award: $11,039.
• 2009-2010 (wave 3) funded by the American Sociological Association Fund for the Advancement of the Discipline ($5,500).
• 2010-2013 (waves 4 and 5) funded by the Office of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies, Rice University. Award: $15,000.
• Social Science Divisional Grant ($3,000). University of Chicago 2009-2010
• UC Labor and Employment Dissertation Research Fellowship, 2005-2006
• UCLA Dissertation Fellowship, 2005-2006 (declined)
• Paula Stone Dissertation Fellowship, 2004
• Pre-Dissertation Grant from the UC Institution of Labor and Employment, 2002-2003
• UCLA Summer Mentorship Fellowship, 2001

• The Sociology of Deviant Behavior
• Gender & Work
• Gender & Sexuality in World Civilizations
• Problems in the Study of Gender
• Problems in the Study of Sexualities
• Self, Culture & Society
• Theories of Gender & Sexuality
• Introduction to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Studies
• The Politics of Narrative Construction

• Researching Gender & Sexualities
• Theorizing Gender
• Teaching Practicum
• Contested Sexualities
• Ethnographic Methods
• Writing Seminar

• Committee on Publications, American Sociological Association, 2018-2021
• Chair, Junior Theorist Award Committee, ASA Theory Section, 2018
• Faculty Director for the Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality, University of Chicago 2017-
• Director of Graduate Studies, Sociology Department, University of Chicago, 2017-
• American Sociological Association, Distinguished Book Award Committee, 2015-2018
• American Sociological Association, Program Committee 2016, 2017, 2020
• Book Review Editor, American Journal of Sociology. 2009-2012 & 2013-2016
• Director of Studies, Center for Gender and Sexualities Studies, U of C. 2011-2015
• Organizer, “Engendering Change” Graduate Gender Conference. 2012, 2015, 2018
• Organizer, ASA Sexualities Section Mini-Conference, 2012
• Editorial Board, Sociological Science, 2017-2020
• Editorial Board, Contexts, 2014-2017
• Editorial Board, Law & Social Inquiry, 2009-2012
• Editorial Board, Gender & Society, 2007-2010
• Editorial Board, American Journal of Sociology, 2008 –present
• American Sociological Association, Committee on Nominations, 2011-2013
• American Sociological Association Sex & Gender Section, Council Member 2012-2015
• American Sociological Association Sexualities Section, Chair, 2011-2012
• American Sociological Association Sexualities Section, Secretary-Treasurer, 2007-2010
• American Sociological Association Sexualities Section, Graduate Student Rep, 2005-2007
• Sociologists for Women in Society – Nominations Committee, 2010-2012
• Sociologists for Women in Society – Membership Coordinator, 2008-2010