Meghan Watts
They/them
Graduate Student
Ph.D. Candidate
Department of Sociology & Anthropology
College of Education
[email protected]Education
B.A. Sociology and Women's & Gender Studies (minor in Social and Economic Justice) University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill 2019
M.S. Sociology North Carolina State University 2022
M.A. Teaching North Carolina State University 2026
Area(s) of Expertise
Critical theories of policing; critical environmental sociology; critical pedagogy
Publications
- (Re)thinking Citizenship as a Comradely Accountability Praxis: Towards Fictive and Necessary Abolitionist Futures , Sociation (2026)
- Book Review: Queering Families: Reproductive Justice in Precarious Times , By Tamara Lea Spira and Doing Gender Justice: Queering Reproduction, Kin, and Care , By Shui-Yin Sharon Yam and Natalie Fixmer-Oraiz Queering Families: Reproductive Justice in Precarious Times. By SpiraTamara Lea. Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2025, 368 pp., $95.00 (hardcover); $27.95 (paper; e-book).Doing Gender Justice: Queering Reproduction, Kin, and Care. By YamShui-Yin SharonFixmer-OraizNatalie. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2025, 211 pp., $39.95 (paper; e-book). , Gender & Society (2025)
- ‘To strive for a different place than the one we have lived’: Following Minnie Bruce Pratt’s ‘long stepping out’ toward a wor(l)d after mother , Journal of Lesbian Studies (2025)
- A (m)Other’s Work Is Becoming Undone: Liminal Belonging and Trans Potentialities , Qualitative Inquiry (2024)
- Presence on Campus: Commitments to Abolitionist Futures through the Practice of Life Lived Differently , ASC Division on Critical Criminology Member Newsletter (2024)