Trevor Sangrey
Visiting Professor
Trevor holds a doctorate in the History of Consciousness, with a parenthetical notation in Feminist Studies, from the University of California, Santa Cruz. Trevor has researched the development of linked rhetorics of race and class through an exploration of the pamphlet literature published by the Communist Party of the United States between 1928 and 1943. Simultaneously, Trevor has taught and published on queer and trans studies.
Previously, Trevor was a Teaching Professor at Washington University in St. Louis in the Women, Gender, and Sexualities Studies Department. There Trevor taught classes on Gender and Social Class, Feminist Praxis and Community Engaged Learning, an Intellectual History of Race and Ethnicity, Women and US Social Movements, Queer Studies, and Queer Theory. Always interested in new pedagogical forms and co-teaching (and co-learning), Trevor recently taught a year- long course supported by the Andrew Mellon Foundation’s StudioLab: Redefining Doctorial Education Grant on Knowing Through Objects: The World of an Antique Chinese Wedding Bed. The course, co-taught with faculty from East Asian Languages and Cultures and Hispanic Studies, explored world history through domestic objects and culminated in a study trip to China in Summer 2025. Trevor has received multiple teaching awards at both WashU and the University of California, Santa Cruz.
For several years, Trevor spearheaded the Arts and Sciences First-Year Programming at Washington University in St. Louis. In this role, Trevor was responsible for realizing the vision of innovative curricular programs for first-year studies that prioritized early access to research, fieldwork, academic study travel, and experiential and community engaged learning. Trevor oversaw the program almost doubling, opening opportunities for more students to deeply engage in innovative academic inquiry. Trevor has also worked across campus and in alternative pedagogical settings, for instance as a Member of the Civic Scholars Program Advisory Committee, a reviewer of the dynamic two-year civic leadership training and experiential learning program for undergraduates at WashU, advisor and instructor for the Prison Education Project in both Missouri Women’s and Men’s Prisons, and they served as co-chair of the WashU Arts and Sciences Faculty Council.
Trevor is excited about teaching in the Grand Challenge program and offering courses on US Social Movements, Gender and Queer Studies, Social Class and Race, and Community Engaged Learning.
Department Member Since 2025