Aaron Devor
Pioneering Transgender Studies Expert and Academic Leader Aaron Devor (born 1951) is a renowned Canadian sociologist and sexologist,
Aaron Devor (born 1951), is a Canadian sociologist and sexologist known for researching transsexuality and transgender communities. Devor has taught at the University of Victoria since 1989 and is the former dean of graduate studies.
Maclean’s magazine, described Devor as “an internationally respected expert on gender, sex and sexuality”.
Devor holds the inaugural position as the world’s first Chair in Transgender Studies. He is the Founder and Academic Director of the world’s largest Transgender Archives, and Founder and host of the international, interdisciplinary Moving Trans History Forward conferences.
He is an author of numerous well-cited scholarly articles and author or editor of five books, including two classics in the field of Transgender Studies. He has delivered more than 35 keynote and plenary addresses worldwide and won many awards for his transgender work, including the Virginia Prince Pioneer Award, a Canadian Association of University Teachers Equity Award, and awards from the University of Victoria for Outstanding Community Outreach, and for Advocacy and Activism in Equity and Diversity.
He is frequently sought by the media for commentary and has appeared in many professionally-produced videos. He is an elected senior member of the International Academy of Sex Research, and was chosen as a Fellow of the Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality.
He is Historian for the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) and has been involved in writing versions of the WPATH Standards of Care since 1999. He is also overseeing the translation of Version 7 into world languages. Devor is a former Dean of Graduate Studies (2002-2012), a 3M national-award-winning teacher, and a professor of Sociology at the University of Victoria.