Tey Meadow is a sociologist and a Cotsen Postdoctoral Fellow in the Society of Fellows at Princeton University. Her scholarship spans the domains of law, politics, the family, sexuality and gender. Her current project, Raising Transgender, under contract with the University of California Press, is an ethnographic and interview-based book about the first generation of families affirming and supporting their gender nonconforming and transgender children. She has written previous articles on the operation of legal gender classifications, the evolution of transgender studies as an emergent literature, and on the politics of family diversity in post-Apartheid South Africa. When not researching, writing or working with students, Tey can typically be found in the company of her dog, volunteering with various LGBT organizations, or talking about herself in the third person.
Tey received her Ph.D. from the Department of Sociology at New York University in 2011. In recent years, she served as a research assistant at NYU’s Institute for Public Knowledge, a consultant for the Social Science Research Council, and a fellow at the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force Policy Institute. Tey holds a Bachelor of Arts from Barnard College and a Juris Doctor from Fordham University School of Law.