Our Fellows

Eartha Mae Guthman is a queer trans woman, neuroscientist, and anarchist. She is a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the lab of Dr. Annegret Falkner at the Princeton Neuroscience Institute at Princeton University. She is interested in understanding how hormones flexibly coordinate brain-wide macro-circuits that are important for social and metabolic behaviors. In her current work, she studies the role of estrogen receptor alpha in orchestrating the dynamics of macro-circuits of hormone-sensitive neural populations in socially interacting mice. Outside of lab, Dr. Guthman is involved in interdisciplinary work with other queer and trans neuroscientists, ecologists, health care professionals and researchers, and STS scholars to apply queer, trans, and feminist theory to biology. As a queer trans woman doing the research, she occupies space typically held by cisgender heterosexual men and does science related to queer biology and health with an intentional eye towards the well-being of and respect for her community.