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Fall 2024

Bertram, Brianne I.

size of the population and variation in gender-affirming can offer potential avenues to assist in forensic investigation. Through a literature review and a series of interviews, this thesis will look at some of the actions transgender individuals may choose to undergo to affirm their gender identity

and how these choices may be reflected in the skeletal record. It also recognizes current calls for action by the transgender community and members of the academic community urging forensic anthropologists to deepen their understanding of how individuals who have undergone transition might be

recognized postmortem. Working with transgender communities to expand our understanding of surgical intervention in the context of transgender medical care, forensic anthropologists might offer insights about a decedent’s history that conventional sex estimation from metric data may not be able to provide.

Fall 2021

Laxamana, Kevin Chavez

their everyday hardships? This thesis looks at the lived histories and stories of transwomen sex workers in Singapore and Bali, Indonesia. By telling the experiences of these individuals, the more we learn about the intricacies and nuances of the transgender experience and reality which informs and

shapes our perspectives on gender and categories. As such, I argue that anthropological studies on transgender and queer subjects, in connection with sex work, are sites for contesting and reformulating classifications and categories. The meanings produced and created from anthropological research and