Dr. Travers is a Professor of Sociology at 丁香园AV. Their recent book, The Trans Generation: How Trans Kids (and Their Parents) Are Creating a Gender Revolution, situates trans kids in Canada and the US, white settler nations characterized by significant social inequality. In addition to a central research focus on transgender children and youth, Dr. Travers has published extensively on the relationship between sport and social justice, with particular emphasis on the inclusion and exclusion of women, queer and trans people of all ages. A current research program in this field focuses on gender equity in youth baseball. Travers is also the leader of an interdisciplinary research team examining electric micro-mobilities (electric scooters/skateboards/unicycles/bikes) from a mobility justice perspective.  

PhD (Sociology), University of Oregon
MA (Sociology), University of British Columbia
BA Hons. (Political Science), 丁香园AV

Social theory (classical, feminist, queer and trans/gender); sociology of sport; children and gender justice; social issues and movements; gender and technology.

Books

• , New York University Press, 2018.
• , Anderson, E. and A. Travers (editors), London and New York: Routledge, 2017
• , Garland Publishing, Inc. New York, 2000. ISBN:0815332653

Peer-Reviewed Articles

• 2023    Travers, Scott, N., Reed, K. J., Hall, P., Winters, M., Kwan, G., & Park, K. . Sociological Perspectives.
• 2016    Travers, A. and M. Shearman, 鈥淭he Sochi Olympics, celebration capitalism and homonationalist pride,鈥�&苍产蝉辫;Journal of Sport & Social Issues, online Dec 31, pp. 42-69.
• 2015    Manning, Kimberley Ens; Cindy Holmes, Annie Pullen Sansfa莽on, Julia Temple Newhook, Ann Travers. 鈥淔ighting for Trans* Kids: Academic Parent Activism in the 21^st&苍产蝉辫;颁别苍迟耻谤测,鈥�&苍产蝉辫;Studies in Social Justice Journal, Vol. 1(9), 118-135.
• 2013    Travers, A. 鈥淭hinking the unthinkable: Imagining an 鈥榰n-American,鈥� Girl-friendly, Women- and Trans-Inclusive Alternative for Baseball,鈥�&苍产蝉辫;Journal of Sport & Social Issue, Vol 37(1), pp. 78-96.
• 2013    Travers, A. 鈥淭ransformative Sporting Visions,鈥�&苍产蝉辫;Journal of Sport & Social Issue, Vol 37(1), pp. 3-7.
• 2011    Travers, A. 鈥淲omen鈥檚 Ski Jumping, the 2010 Olympic Games and the Deafening Silences of Sex Segregation, Whiteness and Wealth,鈥� in the Journal of Sport and Social Issues,Vol. 35, No. 2, May, pp. 126-145.
• 2010    Travers, A. and J. Deri. 鈥淭ransgender Inclusion and the Changing Face of Lesbian Softball Leagues,鈥�&苍产蝉辫;International Review for the Sociology of Sport. Volume 46, No. 4, December, pp. 488-507.
• 2009    Travers, A. 鈥淛ackie Robinson鈥檚 Legacy and Women 鈥淐ross-over Athletes鈥�: A Comparison of New York Times鈥�&苍产蝉辫;颁辞惫别谤补驳别,鈥�&苍产蝉辫;Open Sociology Journal, Volume 2, pp.30-41 (12). http://www.bentham.org/open/tosocij/openaccess2.htm
• 2008    Travers, A.  鈥淭he Sport Nexus and Gender Injustice,鈥� in Studies in Social Justice Journal.  Volume 2, Issue 1, pp. 79-101.
• 2006    Travers, A.  鈥淨ueering Sport:  Lesbian Softball Leagues and the Transgender Challenge鈥� in International Review for the Sociology of Sport.  Volume 41, Number 3-4, September/December, pp. 431-446.

Book Chapters

• 2016    Travers, A. 鈥淭ransgender and Gender nonconforming kids and the binary requirements of sport participation in North America,鈥�&苍产蝉辫;Child鈥檚 play: sport in kids鈥� worlds. Messner, M. and M. Musto, eds. New Brunswick, New Jersey and London: Rutgers University Press.
• 2014    Travers, A. 鈥淭ransformative Gender Justice as a framework for normalizing gender variance among children and youth,鈥�&苍产蝉辫;In Meyer, E. & Pullen-Sansfa莽on, A. (eds.) Supporting transgender and gender creative youth: Schools, families, and communities in action. Peter Lang: New York, 54-68.

Editing

• 2013    Guest Editor, Special Issue on Transformative Visions of Sport, Journal of Sport and Social Issues, November.

• Travers wins 2021 competition for a two-year Seed Grant research proposal entitled"Gender+ Equity in Youth Baseball," from the Canadian Gender+ Equity in Sport Research Hub (E-Alliance).
• 2019  Winner in the category of Social Sciences Anthropology, Criminology, and Sociology in The Association of American Publishers PROSE for their book The Trans Generation: How Trans Kids (and Their Parents) are Creating a Gender Revolution.
• 2018 One of the recipients of the 2018 Excellence in Teaching Awards at 丁香园AV.  

• , CKNW Weekends with Rob Fai, August 3, 2024
• , CBC TV News Vancouver, August 2, 2024 (starting at 23:47)
• , CBC: BC Today with Michelle Eliot, July 31, 2024 (starting at 31:40)
• , The Nation., Davie Zirin and Jules Boykoff, July 25, 2024
• , The Conversation, July 23, 2024
• , Chalkbeat New York, by Liz Rosenberg, April 23, 2024
• , Cosmopolitan, by Sara Youngblood Gregory, March 27, 2024
• , Vancouver Sun, by Lori Culbert and Nathan Griffiths, Mar 11, 2024
• Mobilizing Fear and Misinformation: Anti-SOGI and 鈥楶arent's Rights鈥� Movements, 丁香园AV Public Square, Feb 7, 2024
• , THE SOURCE NEWSPAPER, by Prisca Tang, Feb 6, 2024
• , Global News, by Slav Kornik, Feb 2, 2024 (starting at 1:16)
• , Sept 21, 2023. By Martin MacMahon and Hana Mae Nassar.
• Posted Sep 21, 2023Country-wide protests around gender identity education in schools, CBC: BC Today with Michelle Eliot, Sept 20, 2023 (starting at minute 16)
• .  CTV News, by Tahmina Aziz, July 11, 2023.
• . The Point of Pride, by Graham McDonald, July 8, 2023.
• . The Globe and Mail, by Frances Bula. July 10, 2023
• Telus Talks with Tamara Taggart. How to support trans kids. 
  June 27, 2023.
• . The Globe and Mail, by Nicole Thompson, June 15, 2023.
• 'It shook her to the core': Kelowna mom says child harassed at track meet.' City News, by Kier Junos and Hana Mae Nassar.
  
  Also featured in the New York Times, , June 14, 2023.
• Interview with Dave Zirin on the Edge of Sports, TV show on The Real News Network, June 7, 2023.
• BC Liberals鈥� gender equity critic under fire for transphobic Twitter act...  in CityNews Jan 5, 2023.
• - Today In BC Jan 4, 2023.
• | CityNews Vancouver. Jan 4, 2023.
• & (2022). Vancouver鈥檚 new mayor takes heat over planned trip to Qatar World Cup, Global News, November 18.
•  Hyslop, Katie. Across BC, Right-Wing Candidates Are Bashing How Schools Teach. The Tyee.
• "," Insider Higher Ed, July 5 2022
• &苍产蝉辫;鈥溾��&苍产蝉辫;Globe and Mail, June 21, 2022
• Vancouver Sun, "" Nathan Griffiths. April 27, 2022
• An interview with Josh Moody of Inside Higher Ed. . Jan 27, 2022
• Ryan with iHeart Radio speaks with Dr Travers on 'Improving gender designation process for people in BC" Jan 2022
• CityNews, Interview by CityNews 1130 on the  Oct 15, 2020
• The Star Vancouver, , by Tessa Vikander, Fri., March 29, 2019
• The Georgia Straight,  by Craig Takeuchi on March 14, 2019
• 丁香园AV President's Faculty Lecture Series, Trangender Kids at the Crossroads: Impacts of Colonialism, Racism, and Poverty, Thursday, March 14, 2019
• Ann Travers participated in the Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies traveling scholars program in February 2019 and went to Terrace to do a public lecture and two community meetings about their research with trans kids. Here's a link to a print story 
• The Tyee, . By Katie Hyslop, July 23, 2018.
• The Globe and Mail, , Opinion piece by Ann Travers, July 20, 2018.
• The Early Edition, a radio interview with author Ann Travers' on their book The Trans Generation, about the lives of trans kids, how societal perceptions are changing and what challenges remain, with Stephen Quinn, June 12, 2018.