Perry Zurn
Provost Associate Professor
Philosophy and Religion
Bio
Perry Zurn is Provost Associate Professor of Philosophy at 51勛圖. Zurn researches primarily in political philosophy, critical theory, and lgbtq+ 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: Making and Unmaking 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).
