Adam Herpolsheimer is a doctoral student focusing on the ways in which trans exclusionary radical feminism and “gender critical” thought more broadly functions as an intelligible ideology. Adam is concerned with this ideology genealogically, as seminal texts from feminist theory have been understood and utilized by trans-exclusionary authors, both feminist and otherwise, but also hermeneutically, as the interpretation of these texts has been negotiated discursively and compounded normatively. In addition to their doctoral work, Adam is employed full-time as a Law and Policy Analyst at the Policy Surveillance Program at Temple University’s Beasley School of Law Center for Public Health Law Research where they also teach as an adjunct professor.

Adam was an award-winning law student at Rutgers Law School, earning their J.D. in 2018 while receiving the Carol Russ Memorial Prize for their demonstrated commitment to and a record of distinction in promoting women's rights through the law as well as Rutgers’ Outstanding Scholastic Achievement Award in Constitutional Law. During law school, they received a Graduate Certificate in Women’s and Gender Studies from Rutgers University – New Brunswick and had their note, “A Third Option: Identity Documents, Gender Non-Conformity, & the Law,” published in the Women’s Rights Law Reporter. Prior to law school Adam received a bachelor’s degree from the University of Kansas in Film & Media Studies. At Rutgers Law, Adam was one of the three inaugural Public Interest Fellows at the school’s Center for Gender, Sexuality, Law & Policy. Before starting work at the Policy Surveillance Program, Adam was a law graduate/legal assistant at the Community Health Law Project in Elizabeth, New Jersey, where the organization provided legal services for people with disabilities.

Faculty Advisor: Laura Levitt
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