PJ DiPietro

PJ DiPietro
Associate Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies
CONTACT
Women's and Gender Studies
313 Sims Hall
Email: pjdipiet@syr.edu
Office: 315.443.3707
PROGRAM AFFILIATIONS
LGBTQ Studies
Latino-Latin American Studies
Native American and Indigenous Studies
Education
Post-Doctoral Fellowship. Andrew Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Humanities. Department of Ethnic Studies, University of California-Berkeley.
Ph.D. in Philosophy (Philosophy, Interpretation, and Culture Program). Binghamton University, State University of New York.
M.A. in Philosophy (Philosophy, Interpretation, and Culture Program). Binghamton University, State University of New York.
Graduate Certificate in Gender, Society, and Politics. Facultad Latinoamericana de las Ciencias Sociales (FLACSO) [Latin American Graduate School of Social Sciences].
BA in Media Studies and Linguistics. Universidad Nacional de Jujuy.
Courses
WGS 101 - Introduction to Women’s and Gender Studies
WGS 301 - Feminist Theory
WGS 343 - Latina Feminist Theories
WGS 410 - Advanced Seminar in Feminist Thought: Decolonial Feminisms
WGS 438 - Trans Genders and Sexualities
WGS 601 - Feminist Theories
WGS 740 - Feminist Theories of Knowing
Decolonial Feminism; Feminist and Socio-Political Philosophy; Latinx/Chicanx Feminist Theories; Trans* Studies; Critical Theories of Race and Sexuality; Andean, Mesoamerican, and Afro-diasporic Spiritualities.
Dr. DiPietro works at the intersection of decolonial feminisms, women of color thinking, Latinx studies, and trans* studies. With a transdisciplinary approach, they engage anthropology, human geography, and philosophy. They are one of the co-editors of Speaking Face to Face: The Visionary Philosophy of María Lugones (SUNY 2019) and their single-author manuscript will be published under the title Sideways Selves, The Decolonizing Politics of Trans* Matter Across the Américas. They collaborate with various organizations and collectives committed to social justice, including the Democratizing Knowledge Collective at Syracuse University, the Association for Jotería Arts, Activism, and Scholarship (AJAAS), the decolonial philosophy collaborative REC-Latinoamérica, and the travesti collectives Damas de Hierro and Futuro TransGenérico. DiPietro has received a Tinker Foundation Scholarship and an Andrew Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Humanities.
(2020). “Ni humanos, ni animales, ni monstruos: la decolonización del cuerpo transgénero.” [Neither humans, nor animals, nor monsters: Decolonizing transgender embodiments]. Eidos: Revista de Filosofía 34 (2020): 254-291.
Recipient of the 2021 Sylvia Molloy Award for Best Article in the Humanities (LASA, Latin American Studies Association).
(2020). “Hallucinating Knowing: (Extra)Ordinary Consciousness, more-than-human Perception, and other Decolonizing Remedios within Latina and Xicana Feminist and Queer Theories.” In Pitts, A., Mariana Ortega, and José Medina. (eds). Theories of the Flesh: Latinx and Latin American Feminisms, Transformation, and Resistance. 220-238. New York: Oxford University Press.
(2019). DiPietro, Pedro J., Jennifer McWeeny, and Shireen Roshanravan. Speaking Face to Face. The Visionary Philosophy of María Lugones. Albany, NY: SUNY Press.
(2019). “Beyond Benevolent Violence. Trans* of Color, Radical Multiculturalism, and the Decolonization of Affect.” In DiPietro, P., McWeeny, J., and Roshanravan, S. (eds). Speaking Face to Face: The Visionary Philosophy of Maria Lugones. 197-216. Albany, NY: SUNY Press.
(2019). “Like an Earthquake to the Soul: Experiencing the Visionary Philosophy of María Lugones.” In DiPietro, P., McWeeny, J., and Roshanravan, S. (eds). Speaking Face to Face: The Visionary Philosophy of Maria Lugones. 1-28. Albany, NY: SUNY Press. (co-authored with Jennifer McWeeny and Shireen Roshanravan).
(2019). “Géneros y Violencias: Sobre manifestaciones y respuestas desde los planos político, legal y cultural” [Genders and Violence: Expressions and Responses across Political, Legal, and Cultural Standpoints]. Sinergias. Serie de Tesis de Maestría Vol. 4. Cuadernos del Área Género, Sociedad y Políticas – FLACSO Argentina, [online].
(2018). “Prólogo. Historias desde el Sexilio.” En Ríos Vega, Juan. Historias desde el Sexilio. Cuentos desde los Márgenes de las Sexualidades Panameñas. Panamá: Universidad de Panamá.
(2017). “Geografías insubordinadas. Los saberes feministas latinoamericanos en una experiencia de formación de posgrado en estudios de género” [Insurgent Geographies. Feminist Knowledges in Latin America within Graduate Education]. Sinergias. Serie de Tesis de Maestría Vol. 2. Cuadernos del Área Género, Sociedad y Políticas – FLACSO Argentina, [online].
(2016). “Of Huachafería, Así, and M’ e Mati: Decolonizing Transing Methodologies.” In TSQ, Transgender Studies Quarterly 2(4), 67-76. http://doi.org/10.1215/23289252-3334211
(2016). “Decolonizing Travesti Space in Buenos Aires: Race, Sexuality, and Sideways Relationality.” In Gender, Place, and Culture. A Journal of Feminist Geography, 1-17. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0966369X.2015.1058756
(2015). “Andar de Costado: Etnicidad, Sexualidad, y Descolonización del mundo travesti en Buenos Aires.” In El Andar Erótico Decolonial, edited by Raul Moarquech Ferrera-Balanquet, 131-152. Buenos Aires: Ediciones del Signo.