Joss Greene Papers
Scope and Contents of the Collection
The Joss Green Papers include fliers, programs, awards, photos, speeches, student publications, artifacts, class syllabi, personal drawings, notes, and materials related to queer and trans education and advocacy from his undergraduate time at Scripps (2008-2011).
Dates
- Creation: 2009-2011 and undated
Language of Materials
Languages represented in collection: English.
Access
Collection open for research.
Publication Rights
Please contact Ella Strong Denison Library staff for all requests for permission to reproduce or to publish.
Biography / Administrative History
Joss Taylor Greene was born May 27, 1989 in North Andover Massachusetts. He attended Scripps college from 2008-2011, graduating summa cum laude with Honors in Gender and Women’s Studies and History. His senior thesis was titled, "Irresponsibility, Deviance, and 'Bad Citizenship': Interrogating Racial Hierarchy in Policy Discourse and HIV/AIDS Representation." Greene went on to get a M.A. in Gender and Women’s Studies at Rutgers University in 2015 and a M.A. in Sociology at Columbia University in 2016. He received a PhD in Sociology in 2021 from Columbia University and researches the institutionalized treatment of gender as both binary and cisnormative within the U.S. prison system.
Extent
0.4 Linear Feet (1 document box)
Abstract
The Joss Greene Papers include fliers, programs, awards, photos, speeches, student publications, artifacts, class syllabi, personal drawings, notes, and materials related to queer and trans education and advocacy from his undergraduate time at Scripps (2008-2011). Also, included are programming from on-campus allyship workshops attended and facilitated by Greene. As a transgender man attending Scripps College in the early 2010s, Greene’s papers record a LGBTQIA+ history of Scripps and the Claremont Colleges, centered on campus activism and education. The collection highlights a greater political movement for queer and trans liberation, with material related to the protest against CA Prop 8 (a 2008 California constitutional amendment to ban marriage equality), a petition to include a Queer Studies major at Scripps College, and art advocating for gender-neutral bathrooms on campus.
Organization and Arrangement
Documents organized alphabetically by folder title.
Physical Location
Please consult repository.
Provenance/Source of Acquisition
Donated by Joss Greene.
Accruals
No additions to the collection are anticipated.
Processing Information
Processed by Corey Solorio LoDuca in Fall 2021.
Subject
- Scripps College (Organization)
- Claremont Colleges (Organization)
- Pomona College (Claremont, Calif.) (Organization)
Cultural context
Genre / Form
- Awards
- Concert programs
- Drawings
- Fliers (Ephemera)
- Outlines, syllabi, etc.
- Photography, stereoscopic
- Poetry
- Programs
- Publications
- Speeches, addresses, etc.
- Zines
Topical
- Title
- Joss Greene Papers
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Corey Solorio LoDuca
- Date
- 2021
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- English
Repository Details
Part of the 02 - Ella Strong Denison Library Repository