Scholar, Creative, Loyal
Kristopher Velasco’s research focuses on changing cultural and political regulations of gender and sexuality in both global and U.S. contexts. This interest carries into three specific research agendas. First, he focuses on how both pro-LGBTQ+ advocates and their anti-LGBTQ+ opponents shape policies around the world, especially due to the influx of evangelical financing. Second, he analyzes the growth and development of the U.S. LGBTQ+ movement. He pays particular attention to how understandings of gender and sexuality expand within LGBTQ+ organizations and how policy changes affect them as well. His last line of research focuses on how LGBTQ+ policy changes around the world influence queer migration into the United States. He came to Princeton in 2021.