Phil Zwickler Memorial Grant Winners
2011
2010
- Brian Distelberg, Graduate student in History, Yale University. “Minority Activists, the Mass Media, and the Politics of Anti-Defamation, 1940s-1990s.”
- Sean F. Edgecomb, Lecturer of Drama, Tufts University. “‘Christopher Street After Dark’: Gay Theatre Culture in Print, 1970-1980.”
- Christina B. Hanhardt, Assistant Professor of American Studies, LGBT Studies, Women’s Studies, University of Maryland, College Park. “‘Safe Space’: The Sexual and City Politics of Violence.”
- Abram J. Lewis, Graduate student in American Studies, University of Minnesota. “‘A Certain Acceptable Way of Life:’ Locating Gender Minority Politics in Post-Stonewall LGBT Activist History.” Tim Retzloff, Graduate student in History, Yale University. “Suburb, City, and the Changing Bounds of Lesbian and Gay Life in Metropolitan Detroit, 1945-1985.”
- Nathan Andrew Wilson, Graduate student in History, York University, Canada. “Hitler, Homosexuality, and the Holocaust —The Politics of Memory in West Germany and the United States.”
2009:
- Lauren J. Gutterman, Graduate student in History, New York University. “Stranger on Lesbos: Valerie Taylor and the Lesbian Wife in Cold War America.”
- Whitney Strub, Assistant Professor, Women's Studies/American Studies Programs, Temple University. “Obscenity, Heteronormativity, and Queer Resistance.”
Human Sexuality Collection Research Support Grant.
- Elizabeth O'Gorek, Graduate student, York University. “Masculine Identities in American Print Pornography, 1945-1984: From Playboy to the V.C.R.”
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."