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Don Romesburg
Managing Editor Tsq, Clayman Institute for Gender Research
Staff, Clayman Institute for Gender ResearchBioDr. Don Romesburg is a scholar and educator specializing in LGBTQ+ history and interdisciplinary studies, U.S. history, intersectional feminist studies, and education history and policy. Currently a Visiting Professor of History and Women’s, Gender, and Queer Studies at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, he spent nearly two decades in Sonoma State University's Women’s and Gender Studies Department, where he also founded and ran the Queer Studies minor. At Stanford, Romesburg serves as the managing editor for TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly, through the Clayman Institute for Gender Research.
Romesburg has been a lead scholar in implementing California’s FAIR Education Act and has published extensively, including as author of "Contested Curriculum: LGBTQ History Goes to School" (Rutgers, 2025) and editor of "The Routledge History of Queer America" (2018). His work bridges academia and activism, influencing national conversations on LGBTQ+ education. He has received multiple awards, including the SSU President’s Award for Excellence in Scholarship, and is the namesake of the LGBTQ+ History Association's Don Romesburg Prize for outstanding K-12 curriculum in lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and/or queer history.
His teaching spans intersectional feminist and queer teaching methods, undergraduate women’s and gender studies and history courses, and the development of LGBTQ-inclusive K-12 and higher education curriculum. Romesburg earned a Ph.D. in U.S. History with an interdisciplinary emphasis on Women, Gender, and Sexuality from the University of California, Berkeley, an MA in history from University of Colorado, Boulder, and a history BA from Claremont McKenna College. -
Morteza Roodgar DVM, PhD
Veterinarian Research Scientist, Genetics
BioDr. Morteza Roodgar is a veterinarian scientist with a research focus on Primate induced Pluripotent Stem Cells (iPSCs) and long-read genomics tools.
Dr. Roodgar's research focus is on primate stem cell biology, immunology, and comparative genomics of nonhuman primate models for human diseases. The long-term goal of Dr. Roodgar's research is to Replace, Reduce and Refine (aka 3 R’s) the use of animals in biomedical research leveraging primate induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) and long-read genomic tools to speed up preclinical testing.
Previous research includes immunology and genomic susceptibility to infectious diseases (e.g., tuberculosis, TB) in nonhuman primate models, Preventive Veterinary Medicine and emerging zoonotic diseases (e.g., COVID-19 and Monkeypox).
