Taylor Pryor
Education
Cornell University, MA
University of Central Florida, BA
The field of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Studies is devoted to the investigation of the complexities of sexuality and its importance to the organization of social relations more generally. Primary among its concerns is also the study of the lives, the politics and the creative work of sexual and gender minorities. LGBT Studies is founded on the premise that the social organization of sexuality is best studied from interdisciplinary perspectives. At present, the program includes courses using a variety of methodological tools and disciplinary approaches: anthropological, psychological, sociological, biological, political, historical, literary, musical and artistic. LGBT Studies offers an undergraduate minor and a graduate minor. While LGBT Studies intersects with the critical principles of the Program in Feminist, Gender, & Sexuality Studies, courses that qualify for the LGBT minor will concentrate on questions pertaining to how sexuality and the discourse of sexual minorities and majorities, and normative and non-normative sexual practices, are mobilized in formations of power, knowledge, sociality, and subjectivity.
Department website
Noah Tamarkin
Associate Professor
Publications
Book:
- Genetic Afterlives: Black Jewish Indigeneity in South Africa. Durham: Duke University Press, 2020.
Articles and Book Chapters:
- "After Race Classification: Grappling with South African Indigenous DNA in Practice" in Ordering the Human: The Global Spread of Racial Science, eds. Eram Alam, Dorothy Roberts, and Natalie Shibley, 2024. 242-267. New York: Columbia University Press.
- "Legislating Forensic Genetics in South Africa: Science, Justice, and the Occlusion of Race in Postapartheid DNA Databasing" in Law, Practice and Politics of Forensic DNA Profiling: Forensic Genetics and Their Technolegal Worlds, eds. Victor Toom, Amade M'charek, and Mattias Wienroth, 2023. 72-90. New York: Routledge.
- "Afterword: Data, Life, and Worlds in an Anthropology of Bioinformation" in Bioinformation: Worlds and Futures, eds. Silvia Posocco and EJ Gonzalez-Polledo, 2022. 183-188. New York: Routledge.
- “Forensics and Fortification in South African Self-Captivity.” History and Anthropology, 2019. 30.5: 521-526.
- Year in Review Essay: “Time and Relational Possibility: Cultural Anthropology in 2017.” American Anthropologist, 2018. 120.2: 305-327.
- “Engagements with Decolonization and Decoloniality in and at the Interfaces of STS: Introduction,” co-authored with Kristina Lyons and Juno Parreñas. Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience, 2017. 3.1: 1-10.
- “Genetic Ancestry and Decolonizing Possibilities.” Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience, 2017. 3.1:14-19.
- “Jewish Genetics.” In Oxford Bibliographies in Jewish Studies, edited by Naomi Seidman. New York: Oxford University Press. October 26, 2015.
- “Genetic Diaspora: Producing Knowledge of Genes and Jews in Rural South Africa.” Cultural Anthropology, 2014. 29.3: 552-574. (Awarded the 2015 American Anthropological Association General Anthropology Prize for Exemplary Cross-Field Scholarship; Reprinted 2016 in Déjá Lu. 4.1: 1)
- “African Indigenous Citizenship,” co-authored with Rachel Giraudo. The Routledge Handbook of Global Citizenship Studies, 2014. Edited by Engin F. Isin and Peter Nyers, 545-556. New York: Routledge.
- “Religion as Race, Recognition as Democracy: Lemba ‘Black Jews’ in South Africa.” Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 2011. 637.1: 148-164.
Other Writing
- "South Africa's Lemba People: how they view their Jewishness challenges Zionist ideas that identity is linked to one homeland," The Conversation, April 30, 2024.
- "Land, People, and Palestine: Lessons from Jewish Genetics," Society for the Social Studies of Science Palestine Forum, April 19, 2024.
Education
- PhD Cultural Anthropology with a notation in Feminist Studies, University of California Santa Cruz
- MA Cultural Anthropology, University of California Santa Cruz
- BA Anthropology, Colorado College
Departments and programs
- Anthropology
- Feminist, Gender and Sexuality Studies Program
- Jewish Studies Program
- Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Studies Program
- Science and Technology Studies
- Society for the Humanities
Links
- Department of Anthropology
- WISER Website
- Academia.edu page
- Department of Science and Technology Studies
Keywords
Sociocultural, political, and legal anthropology. Feminist, global, and postcolonial science & technology studies. Jewish studies. Race and ethnicity, citizenship, diaspora, indigeneity, genetics and genomics, policing, gender and sexuality. South Africa.
Emi Donald
PhD Candidate
Education
Bachelor of Arts (Honors), The University of Queensland, Australia
Departments and programs
- Feminist, Gender and Sexuality Studies Program
- History
- Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Studies Program
Keywords
- Thailand & Southeast Asian History
- Gender & Sexuality Studies
- Queer & Trans History
- Sound Studies
Austin Raetz
Graduate Student
Education
B.A. History, State University of New York (SUNY) at Potsdam, 2019
Departments and programs
Jeremy Peschard Pórtela
Graduate Student
Education
B.A., University of California, Los Angeles
Departments and programs
Keywords
- immigration history
- latine history
- history of institutionalization
Joshua Bastian Cole
Departments and programs
Keywords
Trans Studies, Disability Studies, Prosthetics, Puppetry and Performing Objects, Science Fiction/Speculative Media
Kevin C. Quin
Alumni
Departments and programs
Stephen Vider
Associate Professor
Publications
Book
The Queerness of Home: Gender, Sexuality, and the Politics of Domesticity After World War II (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2021)
Articles
"Public Disclosures of Private Realities: HIV/AIDS and the Domestic Archive,” Public Historian 41 no. 2 (2019), 163-189
“Clinical Activism in Community-based Practice: The Case of LGBT Affirmative Care at the Eromin Center, Philadelphia, 1973–1984," with David S. Byers and Emil Smith, American Psychologist 74, no. 8 (2019), 868-881.
“Lesbian and Gay Marriage and Romantic Adjustment in the 1950s and 1960s United States,” Gender & History 29, no. 3 (2017), 693-715
“The Ultimate Extension of Gay Community’: Communal Living and Gay Liberation in the 1970s,” Gender & History 27, no. 3 (2015), 865-881
“‘Oh Hell, May, Why Don't You People Have a Cookbook?’: Camp Humor and Gay Domesticity,” American Quarterly 65, no. 4 (2013): 877-904 (Winner of the Crompton-Noll Award, GL/Q Caucus of the Modern Language Association, January 2015)
“Sanford Versus Steinberg: Black Sitcoms, Jewish Writers, and the 1970s Ethnic Revival,” Transition 105 (2011): 21-29
Book Chapters
“What Happened to the Functional Family?: Defining and Defending Alternative Households Before and Beyond Same-Sex Marriage,” Intimate States: Gender, Sexuality, and Governance in Modern U.S. History, edited by Margot Canaday, Nancy F. Cott, and Robert O. Self (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2021)
“Domesticity,” Routledge History of American Sexuality, edited by Kevin P. Murphy, Jason Ruiz, and David Serlin (New York: Routledge, 2019)
“Consumerism,” Routledge History of Queer America, edited by Don Romesburg (New York: Routledge, 2018), 344-358
“’Nobody’s Goddamn Business But My Own’: Leonard Frey and the Politics of Jewish and Gay Visibility in the 1970s,” in The Boys in the Band: Flashpoints of Cinema, History, and Queer Politics, edited by Matt Bell (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2016), 190-215
Exhibition Catalogues
Co-author, Gay Gotham: Art and Underground Culture in New York, with Donald Albrecht, Skira Rizzoli and the Museum of the City of New York, 2016 (Finalist, 2017 Lambda Literary Award, LGBTQ Nonfiction)
“The Makings of Home,” essay in exhibition catalogue for On the Domestic Front: Scenes of Everyday Queer Life, Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art, New York, NY, curated by James Saslow, August to October 2015
Education
- Ph.D., Harvard University, History of American Civilization
- M.A., Harvard University, English
- B.A., Yale University, English and Psychology
Departments and programs
- American Studies Program
- Feminist, Gender and Sexuality Studies Program
- History
- Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Studies Program
Links
Keywords
Post WWII US History; Public History; LGBTQ Studies
Alex Pasqualini
Departments and programs
Katherine Sender
Professor
Departments and programs
- Feminist, Gender and Sexuality Studies Program
- Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Studies Program
Keywords
gender, sexuality and gay, lesbian, transgender and queer media; research areas span television, audiences, cultural production, consumer culture and globalization