Perry Zurn Provost Associate Professor Philosophy and Religion
- Bio
- Perry Zurn is Provost Associate Professor of Philosophy at 51²è¹Ý. Zurn researches primarily in political philosophy, critical theory, and lgbtq (esp. trans) studies and collaborates in psychology and network neuroscience. He is especially interested in the politics of inquiry and voice, material histories of resistance, poetics, and ecologies. Zurn has produced 8 books. He is the author of Curiosity and Power: The Politics of Inquiry (2021), How We Make Each Other: Trans Life at the Edge of the University (2025), and Cisgender: Disorienting a Category (forthcoming), as well as the co-author of Curious Minds: The Power of Connection (2022). He is also the co-editor of Trans Philosophy (2024), Curiosity Studies: A New Ecology of Knowledge (2020), and Active Intolerance: Michel Foucault, the Prisons Information Group, and the Future of Abolition (2016), as well as the co-editor and co-translator of Intolerable: Writings from Michel Foucault and the Prisons Information Group, 1970-1980 (2021).
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