Andrew Joseph Pegoda

Faculty, Women's Gender Sexuality Studies, University of Houston

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Dr. Pegoda is a feminist, queer, crip, neurodivergent interdisciplinary scholar, educator, guest speaker, and author with twenty years of experience exploring human rights through the intersections of history, historical memory, minorities, fiction, and pedagogy. Dr. Pegoda has coined numerous concepts, including “cripnormativity” (2021), “student time” (2021), “compulsory tolerance” (2024), “stupid suffering” and “stupid (re)infections” (2024), and “parental determinants of health” (2025).

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Contributions

Texas Abortion Law Threatens Academic Freedom

Commentary, October 2021

In the News

Interviewed in "Building Classroom Community Through Dance: An Interview with Author Trevor Boffone," Medium, September 22, 2021.

Opinion: "Blackboard and the Queerphobic Learning Management System," Andrew Joseph Pegoda, Anin Justice, September 22, 2021.

Opinion: "Going a Little Unhinged: Some Raw, Informal Thoughts About Presidential Politics ," Andrew Joseph Pegoda, The Good Men Project, January 13, 2021.

Opinion: "Privilege and Childhood Possessions," Andrew Joseph Pegoda, The Good Men Project, December 7, 2020.

Opinion: "The Democratic Party Talks About Race By Not Talking About Race," Andrew Joseph Pegoda, Talking Points Memo, February 21, 2020.

Opinion: "What People Still Get Wrong About Segregation," Andrew Joseph Pegoda, History / Opinion, Time, February 3, 2020.

Opinion: "I Asked People Why They Don’t Vote, and This Is What They Told Me," Andrew Joseph Pegoda, The Conversation, January 17, 2020.

Publications

"Teaching Through Scenarios: Identities and Sexual Violences in the Gender Studies Classroom" Sexuality, Gender, and Policy 4, no. 1 (2021): 57-68.

Provides guidelines and scenarios as tools for teaching college students about identities and sexual violence.

"Lawrence v. Texas" in Handbook of Texas, (The State Historical Association, 2018).

Discusses the overruled Texas “Homosexual Conduct” law and the more broadly, overturned United States’s remaining laws that prohibited consensual same-sex sexual relationships on grounds that adults have a right to privacy and to liberty.