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Chris Barcelos

Title: Assistant Professor

Email: Chris.Barcelos@umb.edu

Department: Women's Gender Sexuality Studi

Areas of Expertise

critical public health, sexualities studies, queer of color critique, transgender studies, youth

Degrees

BA, Sociology and Gender Studies, Marlboro College
MPPA, Public Policy and Administration, University of Massachusetts Amherst
CAGS, Advanced Feminist Studies, University of Massachusetts Amherst
PhD, Public Health, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Professional Publications & Contributions

  • Barcelos, Chris. 2020. Distributing Condoms and Hope: The Racialized Politics of Youth Sexual Health. Oakland, CA: University of California Press.
  • Barcelos, Chris. 2020. “Go Fund Inequality: The Politics of Crowdfunding Transition-Related Medical Care.” Critical Public Health 30(3): 330-339.
  • Barcelos, Chris. 2019. “Transfeminist Pedagogy and the Women’s Health Classroom.” Feminist Formations 31(3): 1-24
  • Barcelos, Chris. 2019. “Bye-bye Boobies: Normativity and Medicalization in Transgender Medical Crowdfunding.” Culture, Health, & Sexuality 21(12): 1394-1408.
  • Jennings, Linn, Chris Barcelos, and Kristen Malecki. 2019. “Inequalities in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) Health and Health care Access and Utilization in Wisconsin.” Preventive Health Reports 14: 1-7.
  • Barcelos, Chris and Stephanie Budge. 2019. “Inequalities in Crowdfunding Transgender Healthcare.” Transgender Health 4(1): 81-88.
  • Barcelos, Chris. 2018. “Culture, Contraception, and Colorblindness: Youth Sexual Health Promotion as a Gendered Racial Project.” Gender & Society 32(2): 252-273.
  • Barcelos, Chris, and Aline Gubrium, 2018. “Bodies That Tell: Embodying Teen Pregnancy Through Digital Storytelling.” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 43(4): 905-927.
  • Barcelos, Chris, and Aline Gubrium. 2014. “Reproducing Stories: How Young Mothers Negotiate Dominant and Alternative Narratives on Teen Pregnancy.” Social Problems 61(3): 466-481.
  • Barcelos, Chris. 2014. “Producing Potentially Pregnant Teen Bodies: Biopower and Adolescent Pregnancy in the United States.” Critical Public Health 24(4): 476-488.
  • Gubrium, Aline, Chris Barcelos, David Buchanan, and Erika Gubrium. 2013. ‘“When Nothing Matters Things Just Happen’: Young Parenting Women’s Reflections on Caring, Health, and Justice.” International Quarterly of Community Health Education 34(2): 121-137.
  • Barcelos, Chris. 2020. “Transgender Reproductive Justice.” In Reproductive Justice Briefing Book, 2nd edition: A Primer on Reproductive Justice and Social Change. Amherst, MA: Center for Civil Liberties and Public Policy.
  • Barcelos, Chris. Forthcoming. “Gender and Health in Adolescence.” In Oxford Encyclopedia of Gender and Sexuality in Education, edited by Cris Mayo. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.

Additional Information

Chris is a feminist scholar and educator working in the fields of gender and sexualities studies, public health, and sociology. Their work combines critical race theory and critical sexualities studies with community-based research to analyze public health efforts. Chris emphasizes research for and by marginalized people that contributes to effective policies and programs and is guided by the needs and priorities of those most affected.

Dr. Barcelos is also an associate book review editor at TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly, a consultant with Think Again Training, and a yoga teacher.

Twitter: @ChrisABarcelos.

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