MURIEL BOWSER
MAYOR
February 28, 2025
The
Honorable Phil Mendelson
Chairman
Council of the D istrict of Columbia
J
ohn A. Wilson Building
1350 P
ennsylvania Avenue, NW, Suite 504
Washington, DC 20004
Dear Chairman Mende lson:
In accordance with section 2 of the Confirmation Act of 1978, effective March 3, 1979 (D.C. Law 2-
142;
D.C. Official Code § 1-523.01), and pursuant to section 2 of the Interstate Medical Licensure
C
ompact Enactment Act of 2018, effective June 5, 2018 (D.C. Law 22-109; D.C. Official Code § 3-
1271.11)
. I am pleased to nominate the following individual:
Dr. Harry Barbee
Morse Street, N E
Washington,
DC 20002
(Ward 5 )
for
appointment as a voting member o f the Interstate Medi cal Licensure Compact Commission , filling
a vacant
seat formerly h eld by Vikisha F ripp, to serve at the pleasure of the Mayor.
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nclosed, you will find biographical information detailing the experience of the above-mentioned
nominee, together with a proposed resolution to assist the Council during the confirmation process.
I would appreciate the Council’s earliest consideration of this nomination for confirmation. Please
do not hesitate to contact me, or Steven Walker, Director, Mayor’s Office of Talent and
Appointments, should the Council require additional information.
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at the request of the Mayor
A PROPOSED RESOLUTION
IN THE COUNCIL OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
To confirm the appointment
of Harry Barbee to the Interstate Medical Li censure Compact
Commission.
RESOLVED, BY THE COUNCIL OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, that this
resolution may be cited
as the "Interstate Medical Licensure Compact Commission Harry Barbee
Confirmation Resolution
of 2025".
Sec.
2. The Council of the District of Columbia confinns the appointment of:
Dr. Harry Barbee
Morse Street, NE
Washington, DC 20002
(Ward
5)
as a voting member of the Interstate Medical Licensure Compact Commission, established by
section 2
of the Interstate Medical Li censure Compact Enactment Act of 2018, effective June 5,
2018 (D.C. Law 22-109; D.C. Official Code§ 3-1271.11), filling a vacant seat formerly held by
Vikisha Fripp,
to serve at the pleasure of the Mayor.
Sec.
3. The Council of the District of Columbia shall transmit a copy of this resolution,
upon its adoption,
to the nominee and to the Office of the Mayor.
Sec.
4. This resolution shall take effect immediately.
~------------------------ - - -- Barbee CV, Updated January 2024 Page | 1
Harry Barbee, PhD
Curriculum Vitae
Johns Hopkins University
Department of Health, Behavior and Society
Email:
EMPLOYMENT
2023 -- Assistant Professor, Department of Health, Behavior and Society ; Bloomberg
School of Public Health
Johns Hopkins University
2020 -- 2022 Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Medicine, Health, and Society
Courtesy Appointment: Department of Sociology
Affiliate: LGBTQ+ Policy Lab
Vanderbilt University
EDUCATION
2020 PhD, Sociology, Florida State University
2016 MS, Sociology, Florida State University
2013 BA, Sociology, North Carolina State University
BA, Political Science, North Carolina State University
AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION
LGBTQ+ Populations; Aging and Life Course; Health Disparities and Healthcare Access; Gender
and Sexuality; Public Policy; Workplace Organization and Experiences; Social Psychology
PEER REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS
(* denotes student/trainee co-author)
Journal Articles
2023 Barbee, Harry, Bashar Hassan*, and Fan Liang. “Post-Operative Regret Among
Transgender and Gender Diverse Recipients of Gender Affirming Surgery.” JAMA
Surgery
*Covered by: The Washington Post, Yahoo! News, The Sacramento Bee, AOL, U.S. N ews and
World Report
Barbee, Harry and Tara McKay. "Transgender Youth s and Sanctuaries for Gender-
Affirming Care." JAMA Health Forum
Barbee, Harry and Tara McKay. “Do Supportive Work Environments Matter for Minority
Aging? Work Stress and Cognitive Health Among Older Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual,
Transgender, and Queer Adults.” Acta Psychologica.
*Editor’s Choice 2023 Highlight in Lifespan Development Barbee CV, Updated January 2024 Page | 2
Lampe, Nik M., Harry Barbee , Nathaniel M. Tran*, Skyler Bastow*, and Tara McKay.
“Health Disparities Among LGBTQ+ Older Adults.” International Journal of Aging and
Human Development.
2022 M cKay, Tara, Nathaniel M. Tran*, Harry Barbee, and Judy K. Min*. “Association of
Affirming Care with Chronic Disease and Preventative Care Outcomes among Lesbian,
Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Older Adults.” American Journal of Preventive
Medicine.
Barbee, Harry. “Harnessing Progress: Gender, Sexuality, and Positive Self-Perceptions of
Aging in Midlife.” Journal of Aging Studies.
2021 B arbee, Harry, Cameron Deal*, and Gilbert Gonzales. “Anti-Transgender Legislation: A
Public Health Concern for Transgender Youth.” JAMA Pediatrics.
*Covered by: The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Yahoo! News, Yahoo! Finance
Barrett, Anne and Harry Barbee . “The Subjective Life Course Framework: Integrating Life
Course Sociology with Gerontological Perspectives on Subjective Aging” Advances in Life
Course Research, 51.
2019 B arbee, Harry and Douglas Schrock. “Un/Gendering Social Selves: How Nonbinary
People Navigate and Experience a Binar ily-Gendered World.” Sociological Forum
34(3):572-593.
*Earlier version of this paper received the 2017 SWS -South Graduate Student Paper Award
2018 S umerau, J.E., Harry Barbee , Lain A.B. Mathers, and Victoria Eaton. “Exploring the
Experiences of Heterosexual and Asexual Transgender People.” Social Sciences 7:1-16.
Barbee, Harry, Mairead E. Moloney, and Thomas Konrad. “Selling Slumber: American
Neoliberalism and the Medicalization of Sleeplessness.” Sociology Compass 12(10):1- 16.
Sumerau, J.E., Ryan T. Cragun, and Harry Barbee . “‘This Incredible Monster Was Always
in the Way’: The Moral Career of a Sexual Sinner in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter
Day Saints.” The Qualitative Report 23(3):662- 676.
2017 B arrett, Anne and Harry Barbee . “Variation in Subjective Aging by Sexual Minority
Status: An Examination of Four Perspectives.” International Journal of Aging and Human Development 85(1):44-66 .
Invited Book Reviews
Barbee, Harry. 2022. “The Political Economy of Stigma. HIV, Memoir, Medicine, and Crip
Positionalities” by Ally Day. Gender & Society Barbee CV, Updated January 2024 Page | 3
PAPERS UNDER REVIEW
Barbee, Harry , Tara McKay, and Ellesse- Roselee Akré . “Effects of unequal treatment, verbal
harassment, and physical violence on subjective cognitive health among middle-age and older
lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer adults: variation by type and basis of
victimization.”
Barbee, Harry and Kathy Hull. “Public Policy and the Well-Being of Transgender and Gender
Diverse Youth in the United States: A Call for Understanding, Change, and Justice.”
Barbee, Harry, Tara McKay, and Laura Carpenter. “Uneven Adaptations: LGBTQ People
Navigating Periods of Crisis and Deep Uncertainty.”
Barbee, Harry and Tara McKay. “Subjective Aging and Mental Health Among Middle-Age and
Older LGBTQ Adults.”
HONORS, AWARDS , AND R
ECOGNITIONS
2023 Sommer Klag Advocacy Impact Award (Finalist). Bloomberg School of Public
Health; Johns Hopkins University.
Excellence in Teaching Recognition for “Epidemiology of LGBTQ Health.”
Bloomberg School of Public Health; Johns Hopkins University.
Poster Award. Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America.
2022 Postdoctoral Fellow of the Year. Office of Postdoctoral Affairs. Vanderbilt
University.
Postdoc Feature (March). Office of Postdoctoral Affairs. Vanderbilt University
2021 Butler-Williams Scholar. The National Institute on Aging. The National Institutes
of Health
Best Presentation Award. Vanderbilt Postdoctoral Association Symposium.
Vanderbilt University.
Minority Workshop Award. The Society of Multivariate Experimental
Psychology
2020 Graduate Student Teaching Award. Dept. of Sociology. Florida State University
2018 Outstanding Graduate Student Service Award. Sociology Graduate Student
Union. Florida State University
Research Ambassador. T he Qualitative Research Summer Intensive.
ResearchTalk, Inc. and the Odum Institute at the University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill.
Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award. Florida State University (Nominee)
2017 Graduate Student Paper Award for the Study of Gender. Sociologists for Women
in Society – South
Outstanding Graduate Student Mentor Award. Sociology Graduate Student
Union. Florida State University
2015 Allen-Klar Graduate Student Research Paper Award . Dept. of Sociology. Florida
State University Barbee CV, Updated January 2024 Page | 4
Advanced Teaching Training Recognition. Program for Instructional Excellence.
Florida State University
GRANTS AND OT
HER EXTRAMURAL FUNDING
Current Extramural Funding 2023-25 Health Disparities Research Loan Repayment Program: “Aging Beliefs, Health, and Biological Aging Among Middle-Age and Older Sexual and Gender
Minorities”. National Institutes of Health, National Institute on Aging.
Past Funded Applications
2020-22 Postdoctoral Trainee. “Diversity Supplement: Effects of Social Networks and
Policy Context on Health among Older Sexual and Gender Minorities in the US South.” National Institute on Aging (R01AG063771-0 2S2). PI: Tara McKay.
*First NIH diversity supplement funded based on sexual and gender minority status
2020 Methods Training Grant. Department of Sociology . Florida State University
2019 Conference Presentation Grant. Pepper Institute on Aging and Public Policy.
Florida State University
2015 Travel Grant. Sociologists for Women in Society – South
Pending Applications
Mentored Research Scientist Career Development Award (K01) (Principal Investigator): “Effects
of Subjective Views of Aging on Health and Biological Aging a mong Middle-Age and Older
Sexual and Gender Minorities.” National Institutes of Health, National Institute on Aging. Total
Budget: $658,649.
SCHOLARLY PRESENTATIONS
Honorary Presentations
2022 “Developing Inclusive Institutions to Reduce Health Disparities: Lessons from Older LGBTQ+ Adults.” Presentation of the Vanderbilt University Postdoctoral Fellow of the
Year. Annual Vanderbilt University Postdoctoral Symposium.
2018 “Beyond Binaries: Implications for Sex, Gender, and Sexuality Research.” Sociologists for
Women in Society-South Paper Award and Presentation. Southern Sociological Society
Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA
Invited Talks/Panels
2023 “Creating and Maintaining LGBTQ+ Safe Spaces.” Gensler and Associates. Baltimore,
Maryland.
“Conceptualizing Sex and Gender.” Transgender Inclusivity Workgroup, United States
Census Bureau.
“Can Inclusive Institutions Reduce Health Disparities? Lessons from Older LGBTQ+
Adults.” Invited talk at Broward College Pride. Barbee CV, Updated January 2024 Page | 5
2022 Listening Session on Expanding the Evidence Base in Gender-Affirming Care for
Transgender and Gender Diverse Populations. The Sexual & Gender Minority Research
Office. National Institutes of Health.
“Victimization and Cognitive Health Among Middle-Age and Older LGBTQ+ Adults.”
Center for AIDS Research. Johns Hopkins University.
“LGBTQ+ Policy: Faculty Salon Series.” Invited Panelist. Sponsored by Rothschild
College. Vanderbilt University
“NIH Diversity Supplements.” Invited panelist. Sponsored by Vanderbilt Research
Development & Support in the Office of the Vice Provost for Research.
2021 “Subjective Aging and Health Among Sexual and Gender Minorities: Recent
Developments in a Burgeoning Field.” Young Alumni Colloquium Series. Dept. of
Sociology. Florida State University
“LGBTQ Older Adults Navigating Medical Environments.” Invited guest lecture for
LGBT Health Disparities. Dept. of Medicine, Health, and Society. Vanderbilt University.
“Bodies, Embodiment, and a Binary World.” Invited guest lecture for Gendered Bodies
(Graduate Level). Dept. of Sociology. Florida State University.
2020 “Generational Differences in the LGBTQ+ Community.” The Rainbow Alliance at the
United States Census Bureau (Virtual due to Covid -19)
“Reckoning with the Gender Binary.” Invited guest lecture for Gender and Bodies. Dept. of
Sociology. Florida State University.
2019 “Public Sociology in the Digital Age.” Sponsored by the FSU Department of Sociology
“Take Pride in Research.” Sponsored by the Florida State Student Council for
Undergraduate Research and Creativity and the Florida State Pride Student Union
2018 “Graduate School Preparation Bootcamp: A Graduate Student Panel Discussion.”
Sponsored by the Florida State University College of Social Science and Public Policy
2017 “A Post-Mortem on the Fall Semester.” Sponsored by the Program for Instructional
Excellent at Florida State University
Campus Talks/Panels
2021 “Sex in a Pandemic: How Gender Shapes our Adaptations to Moments of Crisis and Deep
Uncertainty.” Sponsored by the Vanderbilt University Postdoctoral Association
2020 “Dealing with Decline: How Different Gender and Sexuality Groups Experience and
Manage Aging Anxiety in Midlife.” Sponsored by the Vanderbilt University Postdoctoral
Association
Professional Meetings and Conferences:
2023 Barbee, Harry. “Victimization and Cognitive Health among Middle-Age and Older
LGBTQ+ Adults.” Interdisciplinary Association of Population Health Sciences Annual
Meeting. Baltimore, MD Barbee CV, Updated January 2024 Page | 6
Barbee, Harry and Tara McKay. “Work Stress and Subjective Cognitive Impairment
Among Middle-Age and Older LGBTQ+ Adults.” American Sociological Association
Annual Meeting. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Barbee, Harry and Tara McKay. “Do Supportive Work Environments Matter for Minority
Aging? Work Stress and Subjective Cognitive Impairment Among Middle-Age and Older
LGBTQ+ Adults.” Data-Intensive Research Conference. Network for Data-Intensive
Research on Aging. Minneapolis, MN.
McKay, Tara, Audrey Kelly, Harry Barbee , Allison Aiello, Kathleen Mullan Harris,
Chantel Martin, and Lauren Gaydosh. “Epigenetic Age Acceleration Among Respondents
in Same-Sex and Mixed-Sex Relationships in Add Health and Health and Retirement
Study Data.” Population Association of America Annual Meeting. New Orleans, LA.
2022 Barbee, Harry and Tara McKay. “Subjective Aging and Mental Health Among Sexual and
Gender Minorities: Examining Variation by Gender and Race.” American Sociological
Association Annual Meeting. Los Angeles, California.
Barbee, Harry, Tara McKay, Nathaniel Tran, and Judy Min. “Promoting Healthy Aging
Through LGBTQ+ Affirming Care: Evidence from VUSNAPS.” American Sociological
Association Annual Meeting. Los Angeles, California.
McKay, Tara, Nathaniel M. Tran*, Harry Barbee, and Judy K. Min*. “Promoting Healthy
Aging through LGBTQ+ Affirming Care.” Academy Health Annual Research Meeting.
Washington, DC.
Barbee, Harry and Tara McKay. “Subjective Aging and Mental Health Among Sexual and
Gender Minorities.” Southern Sociological Society Annual Meeting. Birmingham,
Alabama.
Barbee, Harry, Tara McKay, Nathaniel Tran, and Judy Min. “Promoting Healthy Aging
through LGBTQ+ Affirming Care.” The Gerontological Society of American Annual
Meeting. Indianapolis, Indiana.
2021 Barbee, Harry and Tara McKay. “Variation in Subjective Aging among Middle-Age and
Older LGBTQ+ People: An Exploratory Study.” The Gerontological Society of America
Annual Meeting. Phoenix, Arizona. (Virtual due to COVID-19)
Barbee, Harry, Tara McKay, and Laura Carpenter. “Identifying Risky Partners: Queer Sex
during the COVID-19 Pandemic.” American Sociological Association Annual Meeting.
(Virtual due to Covid-19)
Barbee, Harry. “Harnessing Progress: Constructing Aging as a Process of Growth and
Improvement in Midlife.” Society for the Study of Social Problems Annual Meeting.
(Virtual due to COVID -19)
Barbee, Harry. “Upside of Aging: How Gender and Sexuality Influence Midlife
Perceptions of Progress.” Southern Sociological Society Annual Meeting. New Orleans,
LA. (Virtual due to COVID -19) Barbee CV, Updated January 2024 Page | 7
McKay, Tara, Matthew Facciani, and Harry Barbee . “Alter Loss Following a Major Health
Event among Older LGBT Adults in the UCNets LGBT Oversample.” North American
Social Networks Conference. (Virtual due to COVID -19)
2020 Barbee, Harry. “Who’s Afraid of Aging?: How Gender and Sexuality Influence Aging
Anxiety in Midlife.” Southern Sociological Society Annual Meeting. (Canceled due to
COVID-19)
Moloney, Mairead, Harry Barbee , and Thomas Konrad. “One, Two, Many
Medicalizations: Mapping the Continuum.” American Sociological Association Annual
Meeting. San Francisco, CA. (Virtual due to COVID -19)
2019 Barbee, Harry. “Variation in Subjective Aging Across Gender and Sexual Identities.”
American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, New York, NY
Barbee, Harry. “‘Sexual Minority Men Coping with Aging Anxiety. ” Southern
Sociological Society Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA
2018 Barbee, Harry and Douglas Schrock. “‘I don’t fit’: Nonbinary Living in a Gendered
World.” American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA
*First ever regular session in “Transgender Studies” at the ASA meetings
Waggoner, Miranda and Harry Barbee. “Toward a Sociology of Prognosis.” American
Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA
2017 Barbee, Harry. “Breaking the Chains, Tying the Knots: How Non-Binary People Resist
and Reproduce Gender in Everyday Life.” American Sociological Association Annual
Meeting, Montreal, Canada
2016 Barbee, Harry. “Creating Queer Spaces, Redoing Gender: The Case of Fantasia Drag
Queens.” Southern Sociological Society Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA
2015 Barbee, Harry. “‘Who’s Horny in the House Tonight?’: Drag Queens and the Construction
of Queer Spaces.” American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL
Barrett, Anne and Harry Barbee . “Subjective Aging: Variation by Sexual Orientation.”
American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL
Barbee, Harry and Mairead Eastin Moloney. “Somnolent Capitalism: American Political
Economy and the Medicalization of Sleep.” Society for the Study of Social Problems
Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL
Barbee, Harry and Mairead Eastin Moloney. “Selling Slumber: Sleeplessness,
Medicalization and the Critical Role of American Capitalism.” Southern Sociological
Society Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA
Organized Sessions:
2021 Queer Families and COVID-19. Society for the Study of Social Problems Annual Meeting.
(Virtual due to Covid-19)
Trans/Non-Binary Activism. Southern Sociological Society Annual Meeting. (Virtual due
to Covid-19) Barbee CV, Updated January 2024 Page | 8
Moderated Sessions:
2022 The Benefits of Affirming Healthcare for Older LGBTQ Adults. A talk by Dr. Tara McKay.
Division of Gender, Sexuality, & Health. Columbia University.
Wellbeing and the Life Course. American Sociological Association Annual Meeting
2021 Aspects of Intersectionality in Community Building. Southern Sociological Society
Annual Meeting. (Virtual due to Covid -19)
2020 Sociology of Emotions. American Sociological Association Annual Meeting. San
Francisco, California
2019 Gender, Pronouns, and the Binary. Sociologists for Women in Society Annual Meeting.
Denver, CO
2017 Discourse and Bodies. American Sociological Association Annual Meeting. Montreal,
Canada
Intersections of Sexuality and Identity. Southern Sociological Society Annual Meeting.
Greenville, SC
2016 Regulating Bodies. American Sociological Association Annual Meeting . Seattle, WA
2015 Sexualities Across the Life Course. Society for the Study of Social Problems Annual
Meeting. Chicago, IL
TEACHING AND ADVISING
Classroom Instruction
Instructor of Record at Johns Hopkins University 2023, 4
th
Quarter Epidemiology of LGBTQ+ Health
*Excellence in Teaching Recognition, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Instructor of Record at Florida State University:
2019, Summer B Sociology of Sex and Gender
2019, Spring Social Problems
2018, Fall Sociology of Sex and Gender
2018, Summer B Sociology of Sex and Gender
2017, Fall Sociology of Sex and Gender
2017, Summer C Sociology of Sex and Gender
New Course Development at Florida State University
2017, Summer Sociology of Sex and Gender
Teaching Assistantships at Florida State University:
Introduction to Sociology, Family Problems and Social Change, Graduate Level Qualitative
Research Methods, Sociology of Sex and Gender, Social Problems, Social Psychology of Groups,
Aging and the Life Course, Sociology of Sport Barbee CV, Updated January 2024 Page | 9
Student Advising
School-Wide Dissertation Proposal Committee Member
Connor Volpi, Doctor of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University (Current student)
Katherine Adams, Doctor of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University (Current student)
E. Kisanga, Doctor of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University (Current student)
Departmental Dissertation Proposal Committee Member
Connor Volpi, Doctor of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University (Current student)
Master’s Thesis Capstone Advisor
Laurel Gibson, Master of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University (Current Student)
Samarth Krishna, Master of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University (Current Student)
Martha de la Paz, Master of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University (Current Student)
External Reader on Master’s Thesis
Claire Reardon, Department of Sociology, DePaul University (2023)
SERVICE
Service to the Discipline
Co-Chair, Committee on the Status of LGBTQ+ People, American Sociological Association (2021--)
Member, Annual Meeting Travel Fund Selection Committee, American Sociological Association
(January 1, 2024 --)
Member, Best Article Award Committee, Bodies and Embodiment Section, American Sociological
Association (2023/2024)
Member, Mentoring Award Committee, Section on Aging and the Life Course, American
Sociological Association (2023/2024)
Member, Feminist Activist-Scholar Committee, Section on Sex and Gender, American Sociological
Association (2023/2024)
Member, Supporting Trans Scholars Committee, Sociologists for Trans Justice (2023 --)
Mentor, Critique Me Program, Sociologists for Women in Society (2023)
Secretary, Sociologists for Women in Society – South (2020--2023 )
Member, Nominations Committee, Sexualities Section, American Sociological Association (2020-
2021)
Member, Program Committee, Southern Sociological Society (2021/2022)
Abstract Reviewer, The Gerontological Society of America (2020--2021)
Editor, LGBT*Q&A* column, LGBT Caucus, American Sociological Association (2019--2021 )
Graduate Student Editor, The Southern Sociologist (2016- 2020)
Graduate Student Paper Award Committee, Sociologists for Women in Society -South (2018/19)
Membership Committee, Sociologists for Women in Society (2016/17)
Ad Hoc Journal Reviewer Barbee CV, Updated January 2024 Page | 10
Adolescent Health, M edicine, and Therapeutics; Advances in Life Course Research; American Journal of
Sociology; Annals of Medicine; Cureus Journal of Medical Science; Gender & Society ; Health; Journal of
Adolescent Health; Journal of Health and Social Behavior; Journal of Homosexuality; LGBT Health; OBM
Geriatrics; Psicologia: Reflexão e Crítica; Psychology and Sexuality; Sexuality Research and Social Policy;
Social Currents; Social Problems; Social Psychology Quarterly; Social Sciences; Social Science & Medicine;
Social Science & Medicine—Population Healt h; Sociological Inquiry; Sociological Forum ; Sociology
Compass; Symbolic Interaction; The Clinical Neuropsychologist; The Gerontologist
Service to Johns Hopkins University
Transgender Awareness Task Force, Member (2023 --)
DrPH Health Equity and Social Justice Committee, Member (2023 --)
Service to Florida State University
Florida State University Pride Alumni Network, Board Member (2023 --)
Academic Honor Policy Hearing Panelist (2018-2020)
Graduate Assistants United, Sociology Department Representative (2016-2018)
Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program, Research Advisor (2015/16)
Service to the Florida State University Department of Sociology
Mini Grant Development Committee, Sociology Graduate Student Union (2018/19)
Colloquium Committee (2018/19)
Department Policy Committee (2018/19)
President, Sociology Graduate Student Union (2016-2018)
Graduate Mentorship Coordinator, Sociology Graduate Student Union (2015/16)
Professional Affiliations:
American Sociological Association (2014--)
Sections: Agin
g & the Life Course; Bodies & Embodiment; Medical Sociology; Sex &
Gender; Sexualities; Social Psychology; Sociology of Mental Health; Sociology of
Population
American Public Health Association (2023--)
Ge
rontological Society of America (2019--)
Interdisciplinary Association for Population Health Science (2020 --)
Society for the Study of Social Problems (2014--)
Divisions: Gender; Sexual Behavior, Politics, and Communities; Health, Health Policy,
and Health Services; Youth, Aging, and the Life Course; Society and Mental Health
Sociologists for
Women in Society (2014--)
Sociologists for Women in Society – South (2014--)
Southern Sociological Society (2014--)
PUBLIC OUTREACH AND
OTHER CREATIVE WORK
Media Engagement for Non-Academic Audiences Barbee CV, Updated January 2024 Page | 11
Davis, Molly. 2022. “Students caught in the crosshairs of Tennessee’s fiercely debated gender
admissions.” The Tennessean. (Qu oted in article).
Banks, Emma. 2022. “This map is tracking America’s historic wave of anti-trans legislation .”
Extra. (Quoted in article).
Barrett, Anne and Harry Barbee . 20
20. “How was ‘Middle-Age’ Invented?” Aging Today,
broadcasted on WFSU Public Media . (Coauthored script)
Barrett, Anne and Harry Barbee . 2020. “Why is Age Discrimination Hard to Prove?” Aging Today,
broadcasted on WFSU Public Media. (Coauthored script)
Wortham, Jenna. 2018. “On Instagram, Seeing Between the (Gender) Lines .” New York Times
Magazine. (Quoted in article).
Outreach to Academic Audiences
Sus
sman, Anna Louie. 2023. “The Journey to Thrive. Transgender people live in an often-ho
stile
world. Can community, research, and resilience reduce the threats to their health?” Hopkins
Bloomberg Public Health Magazine. (Quoted in article).
Barbee, Harry. 2019. “D
estined to Disappear? Lessons from Nonbinary People on Dismantling
the Gender Binary.” Wicked Problems, Wicked Solutions. Blog for the FSU College of Social Sciences
and Public Policy.
Barbee, Harry. 2019. “
Transgender Justice Inside and Outside of the Classroom.” Wicked Problems,
Wicked Solutions. Blog for the FSU College of Social Sciences and Public Policy.
Barbee, Harry. 2018. “The Common Denominator of Mass Violence: Guns AND Men .” Wicked
Problems, Wicked Solutions. Blog for the FSU College of Social Sciences and Public Policy.
Other Writing
Barb
ee, Harry. 2015. “Sociologists for Women in Society Annual Winter Meeting Report.” SWS -
South Spring Newsletter: 1 -12
Barbee, Harry. 2012. “Genderqueer.” Windhover 47: 36-39
Executive Office of the Mayor – Mayor’s Office of Talent and Appointments
John A. Wilson Building | 1350 Pennsylvania Avenue, Suite 600 | Washington, DC 20004
Dr. Harry Barbee
Dr. Harry Barbee is current member of the District of Columbia Board
of Medicine.
Dr. Barbee is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Health,
Behavior and Society in the Bloomberg School of Public Health at Johns
Hopkins University. They received their PhD in sociology from Florida
State University in 2020 and worked as a postdoctoral researcher in the
Department of Medicine, Health, and Society at Vanderbilt University
until December 2022.
Their research and teaching focus on issues of gender, sexuality, aging,
and health. They are especially interested in social factors that influence
LGBTQ+ people's health and aging. Their work has been supported by the National Institutes of
Health as a member of the Vanderbilt University Social Networks, Aging, and Policy Study, and
has been covered by major news outlets such as New York Times Magazine and the Washington
Post.
A Ward 5 resident, Dr. Barbee earned their Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and Sociology
from North Carolina State University and their Master of Science in Sociology and Doctor of
Philosophy in Sociology from Florida State University. GOVERNMENT OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
Executive Office of Mayor Muriel Bowser
Office of the General Counsel to the Mayor
______________________________________________________________________________
The John A. Wilson Building • 1350 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW • Suite 300 • Washington, D.C. 20004 • Office (202) 724-7681
To: Tomas Talamante, Steve Walker
From: Betsy Cavendish
Date: February 18, 2025
Subject: Legal sufficiency review of Resolutions nominating Dr. Padma Pavuluri and Dr.
Harry Barbee as members of the Interstate Medical Licensure Compact
Commission
This is to Certify that this office has reviewed the above-referenced resolutions and
found them to be legally unobjectionable. If you have any questions in this regard, please do not
hesitate to call Erika Satterlee, Deputy General Counsel, Executive Office of the Mayor, at 202-
724-1303, or me at 202-724-7681.
______________________________
Elizabeth A. (Betsy) Cavendish