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Justin Gutzwa

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Justin Gutzwa

Assistant Professor

Department of Educational Administration, College of Education

425 Erickson Hall

(517) 355-4544

gutzwaju@msu.edu

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Teaching and Teacher EducationHigher Adult and Lifelong Education

Biography

Justin A. Gutzwa (they/them) is an assistant professor of Higher, Adult, and Lifelong Education. Shaped by their experiences as a queer, nonbinary, trans scholar, Gutzwa employs critical theories and qualitative methods to dismantle deficit-based understandings of queer and trans communities in postsecondary education, particularly trans Communities of Color. Their research has also interrogated systemic minoritization in postsecondary STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) educ

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