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Laura E. Stamm, Ph.D.

Laura E. Stamm, Ph.D.

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About Me

Laura Stamm is an Assistant Professor of Medicine and Health Humanities & Bioethics. Additionally, she is a current Health Equity Scholars for Action fellow with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, carrying out a national study on the impact of gender-affirming care legislation on providers’ practic...
Laura Stamm is an Assistant Professor of Medicine and Health Humanities & Bioethics. Additionally, she is a current Health Equity Scholars for Action fellow with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, carrying out a national study on the impact of gender-affirming care legislation on providers’ practices. Dr. Stamm’s research takes an interdisciplinary approach to understanding the impact of social and political forces on the provision of health care to marginalized communities. Her work appears in various journals and media outlets, including TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly, Synapsis: A Health Humanities Journal, The Hill, and Journal of Primary Care and Community Health. Her book, The Queer Biopic in the AIDS Era, was published in Oxford University Press in 2022.

Faculty Appointments

Assistant Professor - Department of Medicine, General Medicine (SMD)

Assistant Professor - Department of Health Humanities and Bioethics (SMD) - Joint

Credentials

Awards

Susan B Anthony Emerging Leader Award. 2025

Health Equity Scholars for Action Fellow. 2024 - 2026

Andrew W. Mellon Predoctoral Fellowship. 2017 - 2018

Eric O. Clarke Dissertation Prize.

Publications

Journal Articles

Providers' Beliefs and Values: Understanding Their Approach to Gender-Affirming Care

Shirin, A; Daniello, M; Stamm, L.

Journal of Primary Care and Community Health. 2025; .

Disparities in the cancer continuum experienced by transgender and gender-diverse patients: A rapid review

Stamm, LE; Stojanovski, K; Insalaco, ME; Wright, L; Kamen, C; Fung, C.

Cancer. 2025; .

Pose and HIV/AIDS: The Creation of a Trans of Color Past

Stamm, L.

TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly. 2020; 7(4).

Her Story: On the Possibilities of Trans Short Form Media

Stamm, L.

MAI: Feminism & Visual Culture. 2020; 6.

Becoming the Virus: Queer Art that Infects

Stamm, L.

Spectator. 2019; .

Delphinium's Portrait of Queer History: Rethinking Derek Jarman's Legacy

Stamm, L.

Alphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media. 2018; 16.

Review of American Independent Cinema: Rites of Passage and the Crisis Image, by Anna Backman Rogers

Stamm, L.

New Review of Film and Television. 2017; 15(2).

Review of Girls Will Be Boys: Cross-Dressed Women, Lesbians, and American Cinema, by Laura Horak

Stamm, L.

Feminist Media Studies. 2016; .

Minding the Gaps: The Semiotic as Gender Subversion in Mulholland Dr.

Stamm, L.

Burning Daylight. 2012; 1.

From the Clinic to the Talk Show: Narratives of Trans History in Framing Agnes

Stamm, L.

Synapsis: A Health Humanities Journal. .

Sex Data in Research: A Sex Contextualist Suggestion

Sanaeikia, R.; Stamm, L.

Synapsis: A Health Humanities Journal. .

The Threat of a Bad Gay Past: Queer Temporalities in The Miseducation of Cameron Post

Stamm, L.

Synapsis: A Health Humanities Journal. .

Books

New Queer Television: From Marginalization to Mainstreamification (2024)

Chapter: Que soy marimacha': Vida's Queer Inheritance

Authors: Stamm, L.

Publisher: Intellect Ltd. 2024

The Queer Biopic in the AIDS Era (2022)

Authors: Laura Stamm

Publisher: Oxford University Press 2022