樱花影视

Bio

Jamey is a Vanier Scholar and PhD Candidate in History and Cultural, Social, and Political Thought. She specializes in trans histories of Indigenous and colonial North America, with a focus on the Pacific coast. Through ‘storywork’ collaboration with Two-Spirit Knowledge Keeper Saylesh Wesley, Jamey’s dissertation re-narrates the history of ‘contact’ on the Northwest Coast as experienced and shaped by Indigenous trans people in the long nineteenth century.

Awards & Honours

2023-26 Vanier Graduate Scholarship
2025-26 Martin Ridge Fellowship (Western History Association/Huntington Library)
2024-25 Diversity & Inclusion Fellowship (North American Conference on British Studies)
2024-25 DEI Research Fellowship (Society for Historians of the Early American Republic)
2025 Jensen-Miller Prize (Western History Association)
2024 Article Award, with Saylesh Wesley (Oral History Association)
2024 Gregory Sprague Prize (LGBTQ+ History Association)
2023 Graduate Student Essay Prize (Gender & History Journal)
2022 Rees Davies Prize for best M.A. thesis in the UK (Royal Historical Society)
2016 Outstanding B.A. Thesis Award (The New School)
2016 David S. Woods Humanitarian Award (The New School)

Affiliations

(Dr. Sarah Hunt / Tłaliłila’ogwa), Graduate Researcher
Canadian Committee on Women’s & Gender History, B.C. Representative
Manchester University Press, Advisory Board Member for “Queer & Trans Histories Series”
LGBTQ+ History Association, Committee Member for 2026 Gregory Spraque Prize
UVic Department of Gender Studies, Sessional Instructor
UVic Chair in Transgender Studies, MTHF Committee Member
UVic Graduate History Review, Co-Editor

Publications

Jesperson, Jamey. Gender & History 35, no. 3 (2024): 1-21. ***winner of Gender & History Graduate Student Essay Prize, the LGBTQ+ History Association Gregory Sprague Prize, and WHA Jensen-Miller Award***

Jesperson, Jamey. “” PHR: Pacific Historical Review 94, no. 3 (2025): 337-39.

Jesperson, Jamey. “” In Histories of Sex Work Around the World, edited by Catherine Phipps, 49-68. New York: Routledge, 2024.

Jesperson, Jamey and Saylesh Wesley. “ TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly 10, nos. 3-4 (Fall 2023): 265-300. ***winner of OHA Article Award***

Jesperson, Jamey and Chris Aino Pihlak. “” Graduate History Review 12 (2023): i-xi.

Jesperson, Jamey. [book review] Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal 17, no. 2 (Spring 2023): 420-24.

Jesperson, Jamey. Spectator 42, no. 1 (Spring 2022): 32-43.

Jesperson, Jamey. History Workshop. November 20, 2020.

Conferences & Invited Lectures (selected)

“Restorying Indigenous Trans Women on the ‘Western Frontier,’” Simon Fraser University, Department of History Colloquium [2025]

“What is a ‘Trans Woman’? Towards a Useful Category of Historical Analysis,” University of Oxford, LGBTQ+ History Faculty Network Seminar Series [2025]

“Using Colonial Archives for Anti-Colonial Research,” University of Oxford, Faculty of History [2025]

“Transnational Transfemininities: Indigenous North America,” York University, Critical Femininities Conference [2025]

“Everywhere & Nowhere: Indigenous Trans Women on the Western Frontier,” SHEAR Annual Meeting [2025]

“UnQueering ‘Berdache’: An Indigenous Trans Counter-Herstory,” University of Copenhagen, Queer Pasts Conference [2025]

“Re-Storying Indigenous Trans Contact on the Northwest Coast (1790-1895),” George Brown University, Canadian Historical Association [2025]

“’No longer my sweetheart’: The Love and Loss of Sacket (Quatsino) on Vancouver Island (1870-95), University of British Columbia, BC Studies Conference [2025]

“Re-Storying Trans Indigenous Contact in the Pacific Northwest,” MacEwan University, National Queer and Trans+ Community History Conference [2024]

“Trans Misogyny in the Colonial Archive: A Sex Worker’s Counter-History,” University of Toronto [2024]

“A most infamous outrage’”: The Life & Death of a Trans Sex Worker at Fort Vancouver (1834-48),” NACBS Annual Meeting [2024]

“A Tale of Two ‘Men Dressed as Women’: Re-Storying Trans Indigenous Contact in the Pacific Northwest,” Pacific Northwest History Conference [2024]

“Indigenous Trans Feminine Life & Death in the California Missions (1769-1821),” University of Southern California-Huntington Library, New & Emerging Studies of Spanish Colonial Borderlands Workshop [2024]

“Trans Misogyny in the Colonial Archive,” University of Cardiff, Intersec+ions Seminar Series [2023]

“Historicizing Trans Death / Theorizing Trans Survivance,” 樱花影视, Cultural, Social, & Political Thought Colloquium [2023]

“‘Re-Membering’ Indigenous Trans Femininity in the Alta California Missions, 1769-1821,” Berkshire Conference of Women Historians [2023]                   

“‘Re-Membering’ Trans Femininity in the Mexican Sodomy Trials of 1656-1658,” University of York, “Transgender Embodiment, 1400—1700” [2023]

“‘Waking to Dream’: The Life Stories of Saylesh Wesley, Trans Stó:lō Elder-to-Be,” 樱花影视, Moving Trans History Forward Conference [2023]             

“Trans Misogyny in the Colonial Archive: Colonial México,” University of Cambridge, Gender & Sexuality History Workshop [2023]

“Transmisogyny in the Colonial Archive: ‘Re-Membering’ Transfeminine Life & Death,” University of Oxford, History of the Gendered Body Seminar Series [2022]

“Trans & Intersex Relationships to Hormones: A History,” 樱花影视, “Theorizing Hormones” course [2022]

“Transmisogyny in the Colonial Archive: ‘Re-Membering’ Gendercide in the American West.” Gender & History, Historicising Trans Pasts Colloquium [2022]

“Critical Indigenous Studies x Trans Studies,” Modern Language Association, Early Modern Race x Trans Studies Roundtable [2022]