Uchicago professor that teaches lgbtq
Chauncey, George
Publications
Books and Edited Volumes
Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940 (Basic Books, 1994; HarperCollins/U.K., 1995; French translation by Didier Eribon, Fayard, 2003). Winner of five book awards, including the Merle Curti Award in social history (OAH), Frederick Jackson Turner Prize (OAH), Los Angeles Times Book Prize for History, and Lambda Literary Award for Gay Men’s Studies.
Why Marriage? The History Shaping Today’s Debate Over Gay Equality(Basic Books, 2004; Japanese translation, Akashi Shoten, 2006)
Editor (with Elizabeth Povinelli), “Thinking Sexuality Transnationally,” extraordinary issue ofGLQ: Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies (1999)
Editor (with Martin Duberman and Martha Vicinus),Hidden From History: Reclaiming the Queer and Lesbian Past (New American Library, 1989; Turkish translation, Siyasal, 2002)
University of Chicago course will instruct students on 'The Queer Enemy'
One of the nation’s premier universities will soon offer a class on “homophobia.”
In the winter semester, the University of Chicago will offer students a course called “The Queer Enemy and the Politics of Homophobia,” which is set to be featured through the Gender and Sexuality Studies program.
Course topics will address questions like “[h]ow is the queer enemy politically constructed?” and “what are the uses and effects of this enemy in contemporary politics?”
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“This course investigates queer sexuality as a specific kind of threat and homophobia as a specific mode of political antagonism,” the description says. “Key to understanding this specificity is the examination of other kinds of political enemies.”
“Across categories of gender, sexuality, race, religion, and empire, the course theorizes the queer foe in a comparative perspective,” it continues. “[W]e contrast homophobi
University of Chicago professor James A. Robinson among 3 awarded Nobel Prize
A University of Chicago professor and two others were awarded the Nobel memorial prize in economics Monday morning. They were recognized for their research studying why some countries are rich and others poor and documenting that freer, unseal societies are more likely to prosper.
James A. Robinson, an economist and political scientist at University of Chicago; Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson “demonstrated the importance of societal institutions for a country’s prosperity,” the Nobel committee of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said at the announcement in Stockholm.
Acemoglu and Johnson operate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Robinson has recognizable the both of them for 30 years, he mutual at a news conference Monday at the University of Chicago.
As both an economist and political scientist, Robinson has researched political influence, institutions and prosperity. He has conducted fieldwork around the world including Bolivia, Colombia, Haiti, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Nigeria and Sierra Leone.
“James’ research really lays bare how inclusive institutions really matter to the pros
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DEPARTMENT OF ART HISTORY
Rebecca Zorach teaches and writes on early latest European art (15th-17th century), contemporary activist art, and art of the 1960s and 1970s. Particular interests include type media, feminist and queer theory, theory of representation, African American artists, and the multiple intersections of art and politics.
Before joining the faculty at Northwestern she taught at the University of Chicago for fourteen years. She has been a visiting faculty member at Yale University, the École des Hautes Études in Sciences Sociales, and Williams College, where she was Robert Sterling Clark Visiting Professor in 2013-14. Her books include Blood, Milk, Ink, Gold: Abundance and Excess in the French Renaissance (University of Chicago Press, 2005); The Passionate Triangle (University of Chicago Press, 2011); Gold: Nature and Culture with Michael W. Phillips, Jr. (Reaktion Books, 2016); the edited volumes Embodied Utopias: Gender, Social Change, and the Modern Metropolis (with Amy Bingaman and Lisa Shapiro Sanders, Routledge, 2002), The Idol in the Age of Art (with Michael Cole, Routledge, 2009)