About Me
My name is Joss Greene (he/him pronouns). I am an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Davis.
I study gender, punishment, and social change. Much of my work focuses on how multiply marginalized transgender people navigate inequality and craft lives of meaning. I have published research about trans people’s experiences with prison, reentry, work, and community care. I have also published several papers about parole boards.
My work has been published in the American Journal of Sociology, Signs: Journal of Women in Culture & Society, Social Problems, Theoretical Criminology, and Theory & Society, among other journals. My book Gender Bound: Prisons, Trans Lives, and the Abolitionist Horizon will be published in 2026 with the University of California Press (and is currently available for preorder on Amazon!).
Education
- Ph.D. Sociology, Columbia University, 2021
- M.A. Sociology, Columbia University, 2016
- M.A. Women’s & Gender Studies, Rutgers University, 2015
- B.A. History and Gender Studies (double major), Scripps College, 2011
Selected Awards and Professional Highlights
- UC Davis Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Mentoring Undergraduate Research, 2025
- Distinguished Article Award, ASA Section on the Sociology of Sex & Gender, 2024
- Best Article Award, ASA Section on the Sociology of the Body and Embodiment, 2024
- Publication Award for Significant Contributions to Applied and Public Sociology, ASA Section on Sociological Practice and Public Sociology, 2022
- Research Justice at the Intersections Scholar, Mills College, 2021-2022
- Arlene Kaplan Daniels Paper Award for the best paper on women and social justice, Society for the Study of Social Problems, 2020
- Dr. Devon T. Wade Mentorship and Service Award, Graduate School of Arts & Sciences, Columbia University, 2019
- Dissertation Fellowship, Center for Engaged Scholarship, 2018-2019
- Charles Tilly Award for Outstanding Teaching and Scholarship, Sociology Department, Columbia University, 2017
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