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Elias Capello

Liberal arts professor

Education

  • M.A., anthropology, University of Massachusetts Amherst
  • B.S., neuroscience, Centenary College of Louisiana

Credentials

  • Professor of liberal arts, Jan. 2020–present, Savannah College of Art and Design, Atlanta, GA
  • Teaching assistant, 2015–18, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA

Awards, recognitions, and honors

Awards

  • Art Keene Leadership Award, MA, 2017
  • EQLA Outstanding Advocate, LA, 2015

Fellowships and grants

  • Graduate Fellowship, National Science Foundation, 2016–20
  • Art Grant, Emory LGBT+ Community, 2019
  • Department Pre-Dissertation Grant, 2018
  • Department Travel Grant, 2017
  • University of Victoria Community Fellowship, 2016–17
  • National Science Foundation GROW Grant, 2016
  • Transgender Research Endowment, Southern Comfort Conference, 2016
  • Point Foundation Fellowship, 2011–15

Publications and presentations

Book chapters

  • "'Safe' Neighborhoods: Trans & Queer Belongings in Atlanta, Georgia." In Z. McNeil (ed.), Deviant Hollers: Queering Appalachian Econormative Ecologies, accepted.
  • "Queering 'the Community' in Community Based Research." In S. Atalay (ed.), The Community-Based PhD: Complexities, Triumphs, Missteps and Joys of Community-Based & Participatory Action Research as Graduate Students, University of Arizona Press, accepted.
  • "Bons Amis: Resilience Against Suicide for Transgender Communities in Louisiana." In K. Strunk (ed.), Queering the Deep South: Research on Queer Studies in the U.S. Southeast, Information Age Publishing, 2019.

Peer-reviewed journals

  • "TV Repairs Needed: The Underground Resistance to the Pathologization of Trans Lives." Trans Studies Quarterly, accepted.
  • With Haimson, O.L., Dame-Griff, A., and Richter, Z. "Tumblr was a Trans Technology: The Meaning, Importance, History & Future of Trans Technologies." Feminist Media Studies, accepted.
  • "Trans-ing the Ghosts of the Bayou." Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, submitted.

Invited lectures

  • "Feminist Health Politics," presented at University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 2019.
  • "Theorizing Gender, Race, and Power," presented at University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 2018.
  • "Trans Studies," 2018.
  • "Inequality & Oppression," 2017.
  • "Self-Made Manhood," presented at University of Victoria, Canada, 2017.
  • "Trans Health in the Deep South," presented at University of Victoria, Canada, 2017.
  • "Reproductive Politics," 2017.