The National Council on Family Relations' (NCFR) Feminism and Family Studies Section has conferred its organization's prestigious Jessie Bernard award in feminist research to Barbara Gurr.

Receiving the Outstanding Research Proposal from a Feminist Perspective Award is Barbara Gurr, from the University of Connecticut. Her proposal is titled "I Didn't Know We were Queer: Transgender Children and Family Identity."  Pointing the unique contribution of the proposal, one reviewer wrote "...the project promises to challenge traditional ways of conceptualizing families... the sophistication of the feminist perspective described in the proposal will likely challenge others in the field to employ feminist scholarship in the future."

Dr. Gurr's research highlights the intersections of race, class, gender, sexuality, citizenship, and the body.  Her dissertation utilized a reproductive justice framework to examine the consequences of locating Native American women's healthcare in a federal agency, the Indian Health Service.  Her current research considers family identity tasks for cisgender parents with young transgender children.  She is currently an Assistant Professor in Residence in the Women's, Genders, and Sexualities Studies Program at the University of Connecticut and her work has been published in The International Journal of Sociology of the Family, Sociology Compass, The Journal of the Association for Research on Mothering, and other publications.

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