Christoph Lynn Hanssmann

Medium shot of Christoph Lynn Hanssmann in soft shade outdoors

Position Title
Assistant Professor | Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies

Bio

Christoph Hanssmann is an Assistant Professor in Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies at UC Davis. He studies the politics of health, science, and medicine, focusing on relationships between biomedicine and social movements. Recently, he completed a manuscript entitled Care Without Pathology about the transnational emergence of transgender health care as an institutionalizing field and a public good. Dr. Hanssmann works collaboratively with researchers and activists in feminist, queer, and transfeminist health and justice and has published articles in Transgender Studies QuarterlyMedical Anthropology Quarterly, and Social Science and Medicine.