Dr. Rachel Levitt

Teaching Professor & Director of Undergraduate Studies

BA, California State University, Northridge
MA, California State University, Northridge
PhD, University of New Mexico

In addition to their work in the Social Transformation Studies department, Dr. Rachel Levitt is co-chair of K-State's LGBTQ Faculty Staff Association and serves as co-chair of the Flint Hills Human Rights Project board. In their spare time, Dr. Levitt loves to cook fancy things, go swimming, and binge-watch feminist true crime.

Research Interests

Dr. Levitt's research interests include queer and feminist theories of violence, queer of color critique, queer Native studies, queer disability studies, intersectional activism, critical university studies, and legal studies.

Select Publications

Review of the book Normal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics, and the Limits of Law. QED: A Journal of GLBTQ Worldmaking. (Fall, 2013).

"Silence Speaks Volumes." In Silence, Feminism, Power: Reflections on the Edges of Sound, edited by Aimee Carrillo Rowe and Sheena Malhotra, 90-109. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003.

Review of the book When Did Indians Become Straight? Kinship, the History of Sexuality, and Native Sovereignty. American Indian Quarterly. Vol. 36, No. 3 (Summer, 2012).

Teaching Awards

Dr. Levitt has been recognized with multiple teaching and mentoring awards, including:

the Davids-Dunham Award for excellence as a teacher and scholar,
the William L. Stamey Award for outstanding undergraduate teaching,
the LGBT Resource Center's Esteemed Faculty Award for exceptional support and advocacy for queer students,
the University Honors Program Faculty Teaching and Mentoring Award,
and K-State First's First-Year Advocate Award, among others.