Faculty Experts
PJ DiPietro
Decolonial Feminism; Trans* Studies; Afro-Latinx/Latinx/Chicanx Feminist Theories; Feminist and Socio-Political Philosophy; Native and Indigenous Philosophy.
Dr. DiPietro works at the intersection of decolonial feminism, hemispheric Latinx studies, and trans* studies. With a transdisciplinary approach, they engage anthropology, human geography, and philosophy. They collaborate with various organizations and collectives committed to social justice, including the Democratizing Knowledge Collective at ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ, the Association for JoterÃa Arts, Activism, and Scholarship (), the decolonial philosophy collaborative , and the travesti collectives Damas de Hierro and . DiPietro has received a Tinker Foundation Scholarship and an Andrew Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Humanities. They are one of the co-editors of Speaking Face to Face: The Visionary Philosophy of MarÃa Lugones (SUNY 2019), and Trans Philosophy (forthcoming Fall 2024, University of Minnesota Press). Their single-author book Sideways Selves, The Decolonizing Politics of Transing Matter Across the Américas is forthcoming in 2024 with the University of Texas Press.