Paisley Currah is professor of political science and women's & gender studies at Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Currah is a founding editor, with Susan Stryker, of TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly, a new journal from Duke University Press. He is co-editor, with Monica J. Casper, of Corpus: An Interdisciplinary Reader on Bodies and Knowledge (Palgrave, 2011) and Transgender Rights (Minnesota, 2006). Recent articles include: "Homonationalism, State Rationalities, and Sex Contradictions" (Theory & Event, 2013); "Securitizing Gender: Identity, Biometrics, and Gender Non-conforming Bodies at the Airport," co-authored with Tara Mulqueen (Social Research, 2011); "'We Won't Know Who You Are': Contesting Sex Designations on New York City Birth Certificates," co-authored with Lisa Jean Moore (Hypatia 2009); and "The Transgender Rights Imaginary," in Feminist and Queer Legal Theory: Intimate Encounters, Uncomfortable Conversations (Ashgate Press 2009). His book, States of Sex: Regulating Transgender Identities (NYU, forthcoming) looks at contradictions in state definitions of sex. He is a founder and board member of the Transgender Law and Policy Institute, served as the executive director of the Center for Lesbian Gay Studies from 2003-2007, and has chaired the Brooklyn College Department of Political Science since 2011.