Trans Lives in a Globalizing World

J. Michael Ryan?is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Nazarbayev University (Kazakhstan). He received his Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Maryland (United States of America). Dr. Ryan was previously a researcher for the TRANSRIGHTS Project at The University of Lisbon (Portugal) and has taught courses at The American University in Cairo (Egypt), Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales (FLACSO) (Ecuador), and at the University of Maryland. Before returning to academia, Dr. Ryan worked as a research methodologist at the National Center for Health Statistics in Washington, D.C. He is the editor ofCore Concepts in Sociology?(2019), and co-editor of?Gender in the Middle East and North Africa: Contemporary Issues and Challenges (with Helen Rizzo, 2020),?The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Social Theory?(with Bryan Turner et. al., 2017),?The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Consumption and Consumer Studies?(with Daniel T. Cook, 2015), and?The Concise Encyclopedia of Sociology?(with George Ritzer, 2011). He also served as an advisory editor on?The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Gender and Sexuality Studies.