Dr. DiPietro works at the intersection of anthropology, human geography, and philosophy. With a transdisciplinary approach, she engages decolonial thinking, hemispheric Latinx studies, and critical theories of race, gender, transgender, and sexuality. She collaborates with various organizations and collectives committed to social justice, including the Democratizing Knowledge Collective at Syracuse University, the Association for Jotería Arts, Activism, and Scholarship (AJAAS), the decolonial philosophy collaborative REC-Latinoamérica, and the travesti collectives Damas de Hierro and Futuro Trans.

Among other awards, DiPietro has received a Tinker Foundation Scholarship and an Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Humanities. She is one of the co-editors of Speaking Face to Face: The Visionary Philosophy of María Lugones (SUNY 2019), and Trans Philosophy (University of Minnesota Press 2024). Her single-author book Sideways Selves, Travesti and Jotería Struggles Across the Américas will be released in June 2025 by the University of Texas Press.

She serves as the principal investigator for Trans Diasporic Study (2025-2027), a multi-institution research collaboration, which receives funding from the Mellon Foundation’s Higher Learning Program.

She is at work on the María Lugones Reader (with Gabriela Veronelli, Duke University Press), and a new monograph whose tentative title is Repair: Trans Childhood and Social Debt.

Socio-Political Philosophy; Performative, Visual, and Ritual Anthropology; Race, Ethnicity, and Theories of Knowledge; Trans, Gender, and Sexuality Studies; Native and Indigenous Philosophy; Linguistic Anthropology; Decolonial Studies; Afro-Latinx, Latinx, and Xicanx Feminist Theories; Jotería Studies.

(2025). “The Coloniality of Gender.” Kohl Journal - مجلّة كحل A Journal for Body and Gender Research 11(1), Winter/Spring. Special issue, A Lexicon for Bridging Decolonial Queer Feminisms and Materialist Feminisms. (Published in both English and Arabic). https://kohljournal.press/coloniality-gender

(2024). Zurn, Perry, Andrea J. Pitts, Talia Mae Bettcher, and PJ DiPietro, eds. Trans Philosophy. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5749/jj.13083379.

(2024). “Introduction. Situating and Desituating Trans Philosophies.” (co-authored with Perry Zurn, Andrea Pitts, and Talia Mae Bettcher). In Trans Philosophy, edited by Perry Zurn, Andrea Pitts, Talia Mae Bettcher, and PJ DiPietro, VII-XXX. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5749/jj.13083379.3

(2024). “‘I look too good not to be seen.’ Multiple Meaning Realism and Sociosomatics.” In Trans Philosophy, edited by Perry Zurn, Andrea Pitts, Talia Mae Bettcher, and PJ DiPietro, 99-120. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5749/jj.13083379.2

(2023). “Raza, descolonialidad y feminismos.” Sinergias. Cuadernos del Área Género, Sociedad y Políticas – FLACSO. Argentina, Serie de Tesis de Maestría. Vol. 12. [en línea]. https://www.prigepp.org/media/documentos/sinergias/Sinergias_Vol12_Digital.pdf

(2022). “Migraciones y Géneros: itinerarios de la desigualdad [Migrations and Genders: Unequal Pathways.” Sinergias. Serie de Tesis de Maestría Vol. 9. Cuadernos del Área Género, Sociedad y Políticas – FLACSO Argentina [online]. https://bit.ly/3PAxuSi

(2021). “Rutas Interseccionales [Intersectional Routes].” Sinergias. Serie de Tesis de Maestría Vol. 8. Cuadernos del Área Género, Sociedad y Políticas – FLACSO Argentina [online]. http://www.prigepp.org/media/documentos/sinergias/Sinergias_Vol8_Digital.pdf

(2020). “Ni humanos, ni animales, ni monstruos: la decolonización del cuerpo transgénero.” [Neither humans, nor animals, nor monsters: Decolonizing transgender embodiments]. Eidos: Revista de Filosofía 34 (2020): 254-291. Recipient of the 2021 Sylvia Molloy Award for Best Article in the Humanities (LASA, Latin American Studies Association).

(2020). “Hallucinating Knowing: (Extra)Ordinary Consciousness, more-than-human Perception, and other Decolonizing Remedios within Latina and Xicana Feminist and Queer Theories.” In Pitts, A., Mariana Ortega, and José Medina. (eds). Theories of the Flesh: Latinx and Latin American Feminisms, Transformation, and Resistance. 220-238. New York: Oxford University Press.

(2019). DiPietro, Pedro J., Jennifer McWeeny, and Shireen Roshanravan. Speaking Face to Face. The Visionary Philosophy of María Lugones. Albany, NY: SUNY Press.

(2019). “Beyond Benevolent Violence. Trans* of Color, Radical Multiculturalism, and the Decolonization of Affect.” In DiPietro, P., McWeeny, J., and Roshanravan, S. (eds). Speaking Face to Face: The Visionary Philosophy of Maria Lugones. 197-216. Albany, NY: SUNY Press.

(2019). “Like an Earthquake to the Soul: Experiencing the Visionary Philosophy of María Lugones.” In DiPietro, P., McWeeny, J., and Roshanravan, S. (eds). Speaking Face to Face: The Visionary Philosophy of Maria Lugones. 1-28. Albany, NY: SUNY Press. (co-authored with Jennifer McWeeny and Shireen Roshanravan).

(2019). “Géneros y Violencias: Sobre manifestaciones y respuestas desde los planos político, legal y cultural” [Genders and Violence: Expressions and Responses across Political, Legal, and Cultural Standpoints]. Sinergias. Serie de Tesis de Maestría Vol. 4. Cuadernos del Área Género, Sociedad y Políticas – FLACSO Argentina, [online].

(2018). “Prólogo. Historias desde el Sexilio.” En Ríos Vega, Juan. Historias desde el Sexilio. Cuentos desde los Márgenes de las Sexualidades Panameñas. Panamá: Universidad de Panamá.

(2017). “Geografías insubordinadas. Los saberes feministas latinoamericanos en una experiencia de formación de posgrado en estudios de género” [Insurgent Geographies. Feminist Knowledges in Latin America within Graduate Education]. Sinergias. Serie de Tesis de Maestría Vol. 2. Cuadernos del Área Género, Sociedad y Políticas – FLACSO Argentina, [online].

(2016). “Of Huachafería, Así, and M’ e Mati: Decolonizing Transing Methodologies.” In TSQ, Transgender Studies Quarterly 2(4), 67-76. http://doi.org/10.1215/23289252-3334211

(2016). “Decolonizing Travesti Space in Buenos Aires: Race, Sexuality, and Sideways Relationality.” In Gender, Place, and Culture. A Journal of Feminist Geography, 1-17. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0966369X.2015.1058756

(2015). “Andar de Costado: Etnicidad, Sexualidad, y Descolonización del mundo travesti en Buenos Aires.” In El Andar Erótico Decolonial, edited by Raul Moarquech Ferrera-Balanquet, 131-152. Buenos Aires: Ediciones del Signo.