About
Vera received her PhD from the University of Michigan in Sociocultural Anthropology in 2025. Her dissertation, "Thickening Discipline: An Essentialist's Guide to Strength Training in the United States" focuses on gendered athletic repetition, whiteness in the United States South, and practices of relational devotion and transformation. Utilizing multiple "passes" of analysis, her dissertation experiments with analytic form as function while exploring paired themes of humoral contamination/enclosure, stability/pain, and disorientation/adherence. Her current writing project, Notes for Tom, is a collection of epistolary short stories on transsexual practices of care, chronic and chosen pain, and butch/femme hermeneutics. Outside the classroom, Vera is a leatherworker and motorcycle enthusiast.
