2013

Jane Grant Dissertation Fellowship
Miriam Abelson plans her tour of the American South.

Miriam Abelson plans her tour of the American South.

Miriam Abelson, a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Sociology, was awarded the prestigious Jane Grant Dissertation Fellowship. Her field-based research looks at “Transgender Experiences and Transmasculinities in Three U.S. Regions.” Abelson conducted a portion of her research during the summer of 2010 in the southeastern United States. On that trip, funded in part by an earlier CSWS graduate research award, she traveled a total of 3,000 miles in three weeks and interviewed 16 transmen—“people whose bodies had been assigned as female at birth who transitioned to live as men.” She also has interviewed transmen in the San Francisco Bay area and the Midwestern United States and is engaged in a comparative regional analysis of their experiences. “Experience, Confidence & Vision” — 2013 CSWS Jane Grant Dissertation Fellowship awardee Miriam Abelson reflects on the importance of CSWS support to her work as a scholar.

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