Perry Zurn Provost Associate Professor Philosophy and Religion
- Additional Positions at Â鶹Æƽâ°æ
- Director of Undergraduate Studies in Philosophy
- Affiliate Faculty, Honors Program
- Faculty Fellow, Complex Problems
- Degrees
- Postdoc, University of Pennsylvania
PhD, Philosophy, DePaul University
MA, Philosophy, Miami University - Languages Spoken
- English, French, Latin
- Bio
-
Perry Zurn is Provost Associate Professor of Philosophy at Â鶹Æƽâ°æ, and affiliate faculty in the Department of Critical Race, Gender, and Culture Studies, the Honors Program, and the Antiracist Research and Policy Center. He researches primarily in political philosophy, critical theory, trans theory and lgtbq+ studies, and collaborates in psychology and network neuroscience. He is the author of Curiosity and Power: The Politics of Inquiry (2021) and How We Make Each Other: Trans Life at the Edge of the University (2025), 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).
Zurn is the author or coauthor of 90+ additional publications in philosophy, political theory, queer and trans theory, and network science, and has given 200+ talks at local, national, and international venues. Zurn’s work has been featured in 50+ podcast, radio, and television shows, as well as in mainstream news outlets such as The Guardian. And his work has been generously funded by the American Philosophical Association, the Center for Curiosity, the Hypatia Diversity Fund, the Lee Somers Fund, and the Mellon Foundation. Zurn’s previous appointments include Fellow at Cornell University's Society for the Humanities, Visiting Scholar at the University of Pennsylvania's FQT Center, Research Associate at the Five College Women’s Studies Research Center, SSNAP Fellow at Duke University, and Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania’s Center for Curiosity in the School of Social Policy and Practice.
- See Also
- For the Media
- To request an interview for a news story, call Â鶹Æƽâ°æ Communications at 202-885-5950 or submit a request.