Descriptive Summary
Scope and Contents of the Collection
Organization and Arrangement
Indexing Terms
Descriptive Summary
Title: Joss Greene Papers
Dates: 2009-2011 and undated
Collection number: D.Mss.0979
Extent:
0.4 Linear Feet
(1 document box)
Repository:
Scripps College. Ella Strong Denison Library. Claremont, CA 91711.
Abstract: The Joss Green Papers
include fliers, programs, awards, photos, speeches, student publications, artifacts, class
syllabi, personal drawings, notes, and materials related to queer and trans education and
advocacy from his undergraduate time at Scripps (2008-2011). Also, inluded are programming
from on-campus allyship workshops attended and facilitated by Greene. As a transgender man
attending Scripps College in the early 2010s, Greene's papers record a LGBTQIA+ history of
Scripps and the Claremont Colleges, centered on campus activism and education. The
collection highlights a greater political movement for queer and trans liberation, with
material related to the protest against CA Prop 8 (a 2008 California constitutional
amendment to ban marriage equality), a petition to include a Queer Studies major at Scripps
College, and art advocating for gender-neutral bathrooms on campus.
Physical Location: Please consult
repository.
Languages of Material: Languages represented in collection: English.
Administrative Information
Access
Collection open for research.
Publication Rights
Please contact Ella Strong Denison Library staff for all requests for permission to
reproduce or to publish.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item],Joss Greene Papers (D.Mss.0979). Ella Strong Denison Library,
Scripps College, Claremont, California.
Provenance/Source of Acquisition
Donated by Joss Greene.
Accruals
No additions to the collection are anticipated.
Processing Information
Processed by Corey LoDuca in Fall 2021.
Biography / Administrative History
Joss Taylor Greene was born May 27, 1989 in North Andover Massachusetts. He attended
Scripps college from 2008-2011, graduating summa cum laude with Honors in Gender and
Women's Studies and History. His senior thesis was titled, "Irresponsibility, Deviance,
and 'Bad Citizenship': Interrogating Racial Hierarchy in Policy Discourse and HIV/AIDS
Representation." Greene went on to get a M.A. in Gender and Women's Studies at Rutgers
University in 2015 and a M.A. in Sociology at Columbia University in 2016. He received a
PhD in Sociology in 2021 from Columbia University and researches the institutionalized
treatment of gender as both binary and cisnormative within the U.S. prison system.
Scope and Contents of the Collection
The Joss Green Papers include fliers, programs, awards, photos, speeches, student
publications, artifacts, class syllabi, personal drawings, notes, and materials related to
queer and trans education and advocacy from his undergraduate time at Scripps
(2008-2011).
Organization and Arrangement
Documents organized alphabetically by folder title.
Indexing Terms
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the
library’s online public access catalog.
Subject Terms
Scripps College
Claremont Colleges
Pomona College (Claremont, Calif.)
Anti-racism
College presidents
Commencement ceremonies
Dance
Feminism
Gender
Queer action/queer ideas
Queer studies and education
Student government
Transgender Archives
Transgender college students
Genre and Form of Materials
Awards
Concert programs
Drawings
Fliers (Ephemera)
Outlines, syllabi, etc.
Poetry
Programs
Photography, stereoscopic
Publications
Speeches, addresses, etc.
Theater programs
Zines
