TGEU's Senior Researcher
As TGEU’s senior researcher Carla is the lead researcher of the TvT project, which s_he initiated in 2009.
Carla has been active in several social movements since the mid-1980s. Since the late 1990s s_he combined social activism with academic work focussing on trans activism.
S_he holds a Ph.D. and an M.A. in Cultural Anthropology from the Free University of Berlin, wrote hir Ph.D. thesis on gender-variant/trans communities in Brazil, Germany and the United States, taught Cultural Anthropology and Latin American Studies at the Free University of Berlin; hir work has been published in numerous journals and edited volumes in the U.S., Brazil, Germany, Spain and the UK. S_he is a founding member of the Transgender Network Berlin and chairperson of its Scientific Advisory Board, founding member of the online journal Liminalis – Journal for Sex/Gender Emancipation and Resistance and Editorial Board member of the academic journal Transgender Studies Quarterly (TSQ).
Carla supported TGEU from its very beginnings in 2005 and served as a TGEU Steering Committee member from 2008 to 2012. In 2009 s_he initiated TGEU’s Transrespect versus Transphobia Worldwide (TvT) research project. S_he is co-author of Transrespect versus Transphobia Worldwide – A Comparative Review of the Human-rights Situation of Gender-variant/Trans People. Hir responsibilities within TGEU are research (with focus on the TvT project) and international relations outside Europe.