Cole Rizki will be joining faculty at the University of Virginia as Assistant Professor of Latin American Studies in the Department of Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese in Fall 2020. Rizki is a Latin Americanist and transgender studies scholar whose research examines the entanglements of transgender cultural production and activisms with histories of state violence and terror throughout the Américas. His dissertation, "State Violence and Transgender Cultural Politics in Post-Dictatorship Argentina," provincializes US-centric histories of state violence, state formation, and identity politics that continue to underwrite the field of transgender studies. He is the co-editor of "Trans Studies en las Américas," a special issue of TSQ:Transgender Studies Quarterly on Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx Trans Studies along with Juana María Rodríguez, Denilson Lopes, and Claudia Sofía Garriga-López (TSQ 6:2, Spring 2019). Rizki's article "Familiar Grammars of Loss and Belonging: Curating Trans Kinship in Post-Dictatorship Argentina" was recently short-listed for the International Association for Visual Culture and the Journal of Visual Culture Early Career Researcher Essay Prize. His writing currently appears in TSQ as well as GLQ and is forthcoming with the Journal of Visual Culture and Radical History Review.  

In addition to his scholarly research, Rizki coordinates Duke's Gender, Sexuality and Feminist Studies speaker series, "Transgender Studies and the Humanities," and sits on Duke's LGBTQ Task Force as the Chair of the Trans Subcommittee, generating trans-inclusive policy recommendations for the university and affiliated hospital systems. He also serves on the Executive Board of Directors of statewide non-profit organization Equality North Carolina, working with North Carolina’s broader LGBTQ+ community. Rizki holds a B.A. in Spanish from Smith College and an M.A. in Spanish from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.  

• Interview: Teaching "Intro to Transgender Studies" as a service learning course
  
• Student perspectives on service learning in Duke Today

• Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies Dissertation Completion Fellowship, 2019-2020
• Bass Instructor of Record Fellow, Duke University, Fall 2018 & Fall 2019
• Service Learning Fellow, Duke University, 2016-2017
• Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship (FLAS) for Portuguese language training, U.S. Department of Education, 2014-2015
• Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Fellow, Duke University, 2013-2014
• Fulbright Fellow, Argentina, 2010-2011

• Graduate Student Mentor, Duke Data+ Program, Summer 2016, National Transgender Discrimination Survey analysis
• Mentored undergraduate team to produce visualizations of employment, public accommodation, and housing discrimination faced by transgender and gender nonconforming residents in North Carolina and the South 
• "Gender Identity Data Put Summer Students on Front Lines" in Duke Today 
• "Transgender Discrimination Survey" project summary

• "Introduction to Latinx Studies," Latino Studies in the Global South 201S, TuTh 10:05-11:20, Friedl 225, Fall 2018  
• "Introduction to Transgender Studies," Lit 190S, MF 3:05-4:15, White Lecture Hall 106 (community engaged learning course), Fall 2016