Human Sexuality Collection

Phil Zwickler Memorial Research Grant News

Phil Zwickler Memorial Grant Winners

2008:

  • Amy L. Stone, Dept. of Sociology and Anthropology, Trinity University, San Antonio, TX. "The Institutionalization of LGBT Ballot Campaign Strategies."
  • David B. Green, Jr., Graduate Student, University of Wisconsin-Madison. "Queering Civil Rights, Coloring Stonewall: A History of Queer Interracial Organizing, 1963-1980."

2007:

  • Stefanie Snider, doctoral student in Art History, University of Southern California, "Imag(in)ing Subcultural Bodies: Fat and Queer Subjects in Contemporary Art and Visual Culture, 1970-Present."
  • Scott Morgensen, Asst. Professor of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Macalester College, to continue his prior research at Cornell on early gay and lesbian activism by women and people of color. "We Are Everywhere: Imagining Collective Organizing in the National Gay Task Force, 1973-1979."
  • Robert Beachy, Associate Professor of History, Goucher College, "Berlin: Gay Metropolis, 1860-1933."

2006:

  • Mark Abraham, graduate student in History and Theory of Gender and Sexuality at York University, Toronto, Canada, "Bodies on the Line: Sex and the American Counterculture, 1965-1975."
  • David Johnson, Assistant Professor of History, University of South Florida, "Buying Gay: Gay Mass Consumption and Identity before Stonewall."
  • Mark Meinke, Founder & Principal Researcher, Rainbow History Project. A study of H. Lynn Womack's relationship with the Mattachine Society of Washington and possible links between the Gay Liberation Fronts in Washington, DC and New York City.

2005:

  • Tim Retzloff, undergraduate student at University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, "'It Was Just Unheard Of': Suburbanization and the Shaping of Gay and Lesbian Community in Metro Detroit."
  • Gill Frank, graduate student in American Civilization at Brown University, "'Save the Children': The Sexual Politics of Child Protection in the United States, 1969-1989."
  • Prof. Chet Meeks, Assistant Professor of Sociology at Northern Illinois University, "'Normal Gay Citizen': GLAAD, Positive Visibility, and the Transformation of American Sexual Culture."

2004:

  • Heather Murray, graduate student University of Massachusetts-Amherst, "Family Life in the Suburbs of Human Contempt: Gay Lives Within and Beyond the Family, 1950s-90s."
  • Richard M. Juang, Asst. Prof. Department of English, Susquehanna University, "Transgender Recognition."
  • Scott Morgensen, Asst. Prof. in LGBT Studies, Women's and Gender Studies Dept. Macalester College, "Imagining the Indigenous in Queer Politics."
  • Danielle M. DeMuth, Visiting Assistant Professor of Women's Studies at Hamilton College, "Lesbian Literary History and the Limits of Reading Literature as History, We Don't Read the Literature Anymore."

2003:

  • Christina B. Hanhardt, New York University American Studies graduate student.
  • Associate Professor Richard Meyer, University of Southern California's Art History.
  • Assistant Professor Anne Enke, History and Women's Studies, University of Wisconsin ­ Madison.

2002:

  • William B. Turner, Assistant Professor of History at St. Cloud State University in Minnesota, "The New Civil Rights: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Politics and Policy in the United States, 1975-2000."
  • Leisa D. Meyer, Associate Professor of History at The College of William & Mary, for her proposal "Sexuality in America: A History Since World War II."
  • Dermot Feenan, a visiting researcher from the University of Ulster Law School in Northern Ireland, "Gay and Lesbian Activism: National Gay and Lesbian Task Force Challenges to Discrimination on the Grounds of Sexual Orientation."