Dr. Margot Wilson is an Associate Professor, Emerita, in Cultural Anthropology at the University of Victoria. Her academic interests include culture change, international development and planned change. Her research has focused primarily on Bangladesh but she has spent a considerable amount of time in India, mostly directing field schools for student groups.

As a collaborator in the first iteration of the Collaboratory (2014-2019), Margot worked closely with Dr. Aaron Devor, Transgender Archives, in interviewing trans elders whose papers were in the Transgender Archives, especially Stephanie Castle.

In 2018, Margot published Girl in the Dream, a life history of Castle, a Canadian transgender woman and early advocate for the rights of transgender people and, more specifically, for transgender people incarcerated in the Canadian prison system. Margot has founded
TransGender Publishing, a small independently owned publishing house focusing specifically on publishing transgender manuscripts.