Dr. Wiggins is an associate professor of Women’s and Gender Studies at Athabasca University (AU). His federally funded research program centers transgender health and sexuality, queer and trans visual culture, clinical transphobia, arts-based research, and psychoanalysis. Broadly, Wiggins’ work aims to address the continued pathologization of gender variance and to support trans-competent care and social advocacy. His recent publications appear in the Transgender Studies Quarterly, Studies in Gender and Sexuality, Psychoanalytic Study of the Child, and the anthology Sex, Sexuality and Trans Identities: Clinical Guidance for Psychotherapists and Counselors.

At AU, he coordinates the University Certificate in Counselling Women, an interdisciplinary program that applies contemporary feminist theory to the practice of counselling and marginalized people’s health. He holds considerable experience with both in-person and online pedagogies, and takes a critical, transnational, and justice-based approach to teaching across several specializations including transgender studies, queer and feminist theory, decolonization, critical disability studies, qualitative methodologies, and psychoanalysis.

Wiggins’ extensive service contributions are thoughtfully intertwined with his research and teaching, all of which focus directly upon principles of equity, diversity, and inclusion. At Athabasca University he serves on the Research Ethics Board, the Indigenous Center’s Council of Indigenous Allies, as well as the Faculty’s Decolonization Working Group.