September 27, 2023
Juniper Oxford is SIU’s new LGBTQ center coordinator
CARBONDALE, Ill. — Juniper Oxford, an educator and historian of gender and sexuality, is the new coordinator of the LGBTQ Resource Center within the Student Multicultural Resource Center.
Oxford earned her bachelor’s degree in history with a minor in political science at SIU in 2021 and completed her master’s degree in history at the University of Vermont in 2023. While at Vermont, she held graduate teaching assistant positions and worked for the Jack and Shirley Silver Special Collections Library.
Her research focuses on trans lives in the 19th and 20th centuries, and her article, “Draft Dodger, Soldier’s Wife: Trans Feminine Lives, Civic Duty and World War II” will be published later this month in “Trans History by Trans Historians” issue of the Graduate History Review at the University of Victoria.
Oxford said her goals are to help build and sustain an affirming and empowering environment for SIU's queer and trans community.
Oxford is available by email at juniper.oxford@siu.edu.