Queering STEM Culture in US Higher Education

Kelly J. Cross is an Assistant Professor of Chemical and Materials Engineering at University of Nevada Reno, USA.Stephanie Farrell is a Professor and Founding Department Head of Experiential Engineering Education at Henry M. Rowan College of Engineering, Rowan University, USA.Bryce E. Hughes is an Assistant Professor of Adult & Higher Education at Montana State University, USA.

• 1: What Do We Know and Why Should We Support Queer and Trans People in STEM? Bryce E. Hughes, Stephanie Farrell, and Kelly J. Cross Part I: Queer Students: Where do I fit in STEM?2: I am Gay, Not Invisible! Miguel Moore 3: Transcending the Margins and Boundaries as Latin-American EngineerHéctor E. Rodríguez-Simmonds 4: A Call to Make Queer Erasure, Violence, and Battle Fatigue in STEM Visible D.C. Beardmore Part II: Queer Staff: How Can I Create Safe Spaces for Queer People in STEM?5: Navigating and Celebrating Your Otherness to Succeed as a Queer Person in STEM Robyn Sandekian 6: Local Minima and Maxima in Trans-STEM Affirmations Kyle Trenshaw Part III: Queer Faculty: How Can I Build Community for Queer People in STEM7: Invisible and Exhausted on the Margins of Academia Zoe Reidinger 8: Queer STEM Parenting Made me a Better Teacher/Instructor Stephen Podowitz-Thomas and Erjia Yan 9: Being Queer Taught Me How to Teach Anthony Butterfield 10: Empathy, Sympathy, and AccountabilityAric Bryant 11: Building a Village to Manage my Triple Threat Multiple Identities Kelly J. Cross Part IV: Queer Allies, Allyship, and Advocates: How Can I Support Queer People in STEM?12: Can You See Me Now: Being a Black Queer Man in STEM Chris Carr and Darryl Dickerson 13: My Evolution Over 40 Years in Higher Education: From Silence in the Closet to Out and Evolving Karen P. DePauw and Kelly J. Cross 14: The Act of Embrace as Queer Resistance in Engineering Donna Riley 15: My Ongoing Journey through Allyship Adrienne R. Minerick 16: What Does It Mean and Where Do We Go from Here? Stephanie Farrell, Kelly J. Cross, and Bryce Hughes