Z Nicolazzo

Dr.Z Nicolazzo is an associate professor of Trans* Studies in Education in theCenter for the Study of Higher Education at the University of Arizona. Z'sresearch explores how discourses of gender pervade and mediate collegeenvironments, with particular attention paid to trans people. Additionally, herlatest scholarship focuses on how trans people cultivate future possible selvesthrough digital/online platforms, as well as how higher education invests inthe logics of transmisogyny. Her first...See more

Dr.Z Nicolazzo is an associate professor of Trans* Studies in Education in theCenter for the Study of Higher Education at the University of Arizona. Z'sresearch explores how discourses of gender pervade and mediate collegeenvironments, with particular attention paid to trans people. Additionally, herlatest scholarship focuses on how trans people cultivate future possible selvesthrough digital/online platforms, as well as how higher education invests inthe logics of transmisogyny. Her first book, Trans* in college: Transgenderstudents' strategies for navigating campus life and the institutional politicsof inclusion , was awarded the 2017 American Educational ResearchAssociation Division J Publication of the Year Award, and was published byStylus in 2017. See less