I am a transdisciplinary socio-spatial scientist whose work draws from myriad fields to understand the conditions in which trans lives are led, and how we can improve trans people’s life chances. I am an Assistant Professor of Geography here at UBC, and an affiliate member of the Institute for Race, Gender, Sexuality & Social Justice. I teach courses on geographic information science and conduct collaborative research on trans health and human rights bringing my methodological expertise in geography, and theory from applied trans studies. In addition, I am a Co-Founder, Distinguished Fellow & Director of Finance at the Center for Applied Transgender Studies (CATS). We are a non-profit, academic think tank focused on the application of scholarship on and with transgender communities to law, policy and practice. We publish a platinum open-access journal Bulletin of Applied Transgender Studies which is free to publish in and free to read.

I earned my PhD in Population, Health & Place from the University of Southern California in 2022. Prior to that, I earned two degrees in gender studies, an MA from Queen’s University, and a BA from UNC-Greensboro, where I also majored in Religious Studies and French. My current work bridges my humanistic training with my applied and empirical work in health geography.

I work across the social, spatial, health and information sciences to understand the needs of and issues facing transgender and gender diverse communities. My published work has ranged from quantifying geographic access to gender-affirming healthcare to a critique of historicity as a means of shoring up trans rights. My current research considers how we source scientific information about trans people, the circulation of data and statistics on trans life within and outside trans communities, and the ways in which trans people seek information about gender-affirming care and go about accessing it. My monograph project, tentatively titled Beyond Binary Data, seeks to understand how data, information, and statistics shape the lives and the life chances of transgender people. It is currently funded by a SSHRC Insight Development Grant.

Here at UBC, my teaching will focus on geographic information science, but this is not my only interest in working with students. I am also interested in mentoring students with interests in trans (and queer) geographies, health and medical geography, critical GIS and critical data studies, and science and technology studies.

Students interested in working with me should reach out to me directly in advance of applying to our department’s graduate programs

2025

Correll-King, W. M., I.-A. Ubong, D. Monro, K. Scott, S. N. Strunk, J. Stephenson, L. Jadwin-Cakmak, A. Everhart, and K. E. Gamarel. 2025. Triggered: Qualitatively exploring structural and social drivers of firearm violence exposure among LGBTQ+ young adults of color in Detroit. Social science & medicine (1982) 384. Elsevier: 118524. doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2025.118524.

Scheim, A. I., A. J. Restar, D. Zubizarreta, R. Lucas, S. W. Cole, A. Everhart, K. E. Baker, and M. I. Rodriguez. 2025. Legal gender recognition and the health of transgender and gender diverse people: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Social science & medicine (1982) 378. Elsevier: 118147. doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2025.118147.

2024

Everhart, A. Gamarel, K. and O. Haimson. 2024. Technology for Transgender Healthcare: Access, Precarity & Community Care. Social Science & Medicine 345, 116713. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2024.116713

Riggs, D. W., A. J. Lowik, A. Javellana Restar, A. Everhart, E. Lett, A. S. Cheung, M. Arora, G. J. Treharne, and S. Rosenberg. 2024. Ensuring an inclusive, trans-led future for the field of trans health. International Journal of Transgender Health 25(4). Taylor & Francis Inc: 619–622. doi: 10.1080/26895269.2024.2370607.

Bear Don’T Walk, O. J., A. Paullada, A. Everhart, R. Casanova-Perez, T. Cohen, and T. Veinot. 2024. Opportunities for incorporating intersectionality into biomedical informatics. Journal of Biomedical Informatics 154. Academic Press Inc Elsevier Science: 104653. doi: 10.1016/j.jbi.2024.104653.

2023

Everhart, A. R., Ferguson, L. and J. P. Wilson. 2023. Measuring Geographic Access to Transgender Hormone Therapy in Texas: A Three-Step Floating Catchment Area Analysis. Spatial and Spatio-Temporal Epidemiology 24 (April): 100585. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sste.2023.100585.

Restar, A. Minalga, B. J. Quilantang, Ma. I. Adamson, T. Dusic, E. van der Merwe, L.-A. Millet, G. Rosadiño, D. Laguing, T. Lett, E. Everhart, A. Phillips, G. Janamnuaysook, R. Seekaew, P. Baker, K. Ashley, F. Wickersham, J. Wallace, S. E. Operario, D. and K. E. Gamarel. 2023. Mapping Community-Engaged Implementation Strategies with Transgender Scientists, Stakeholders, and Trans-Led Community Organizations. Current HIV/AIDS Reports 20 (3): 160–169. doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11904-023-00656-y

2022

Billard, T. J., Everhart, A. R. and E. Zhang. 2022. Whither Trans Studies?: On Fields, Post-Disciplines, and the Need for an Applied Transgender Studies 1 (1–2). doi: https://doi.org/10.57814/PE84-4348.

Everhart, A. R., Boska, H. Sinai-Glazer, H. Wilson-Yang, J. Q. Burke, N. B. LeBlanc, G. Persad, Y. Ortigoza, E. Scheim, A. I. and Z. Marshall. 2022. ‘I’m Not Interested in Research; i’m Interested in Services’: How to Better Health and Social Services for Transgender Women Living with and Affected by HIV. Social Science & Medicine 292 (January): 114610. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2021.114610.

Everhart, A. R., Ferguson, L. and J. P. Wilson. 2022. Construction and Validation of a Spatial Database of Providers of Transgender Hormone Therapy in the US. Social Science & Medicine 303 (June): 115014. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2022.115014.

Everhart, A. R. 2022. Bones without Flesh and (Trans)Gender without Bodies: Querying Desires for Trans Historicity. Hypatia 37 (4): 601–18. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/hyp.2022.50.

Lett, E. Abrams, M. P. Gold, A. Fullerton, F. A. and A. Everhart. 2022. Ethnoracial Inequities in Access to Gender-Affirming Mental Health Care and Psychological Distress among Transgender Adults. Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology. doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00127-022-02246-6.

2021

Kronk, C. A. Everhart, A. R. Ashley, F. Thompson, H. M. Schall, T. E. Goetz, T. G. Hiatt, L. Derrick, Z. Queen, R. Ram, A. Guthman, E. M. Danforth, O. M. Lett, E. Potter, E. Sun, S. D. Marshall, Z. and R. Karnoski. 2021. Transgender Data Collection in the Electronic Health Record: Current Concepts and Issues. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association 29 (2). doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/jamia/ocab136.

Lett, E. and A. Everhart. 2021. Considerations for Transgender Population Health Research Based on US National Surveys. Annals of Epidemiology. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.annepidem.2021.10.009.

Dean of Arts Faculty Research Award 2025/2026
Outstanding Dissertation Award – Digital Geographies Specialty Group of the American Association of Geographers (2023)
Order of Arête – University of Southern California (2022)
Gamma Theta Upsilon Lifetime Inductee (2022)