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Mission
The Center for Lesbian and Gay
Studies (CLAGS) was founded in 1991 as the first university-based research
center in the United States dedicated to the study of historical,
cultural, and political issues of vital concern to lesbian, gay,
bisexual, and transgender individuals and communities. By sponsoring public programs
and conferences, offering fellowships to individual scholars, and
functioning as an indispensable conduit of information, CLAGS serves
as a national center for the promotion of scholarship that fosters
social change.
Directions & Hours
CLAGS is located in room 7115 of the Graduate Center of the
City University of New York, 365 Fifth Avenue between 34th/35th Streets.
The Graduate Center is easy walking distance from these subway lines:
B,D,F,V,N,Q,R,W at 34th St/Herald Square
1,2,3 at 34th St
6 at 33rd St.
CLAGS is generally open Mon-Fri from 11am-5pm. If you are making a special trip, we recommend calling ahead: 212.817.1955.
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Executive Director:
Sarah E. Chinn is an Associate Professor in the English Department at
Hunter College. She is the author of Technology and the Logic of American Racism: A Cultural History of the Body as Evidence (2000), and
New Americans, New Identities: The Children of Immigrants and the Invention of Modern Adolescence, 1885-1930 (forthcoming, Rutgers
University Press). She has also published numerous articles in American Studies, Queer Studies, and Disability Studies, including
"Feeling Her Way: Audre Lorde and the Power of Touch," and "'Something Primitive and Age-Old as Nature Herself': Lesbian Sexuality and the
Permission of the Exotic."
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Founder:
Martin Duberman is Distinguished Professor of History at Lehman College and the Graduate
Center of the City University of New York, and the founder and
first Director (1986-96) of the Center for Lesbian and Gay
Studies. One of the country's foremost historians, he is the
author of 19 books and numerous articles and essays. He won the
Bancroft Prize for Charles Francis Adams; two Lambda awards
for Hidden from History: Reclaiming the Gay and Lesbian Past,
an anthology he co-edited; and a special award from the National
Academy of Arts and Letters for his "contributions to
literature." His play, In White America, won the
Vernon Rice/Drama Desk Award. His most current play, Visions of
Kerouac, will be produced in May 2003 at the Marin Theater
Company. His other works include James Russell Lowell, Black
Mountain: An Exploration in Community, Paul Robeson, Cures:
A Gay Man's Odyssey, and Stonewall. He just completed a
novel, Haymarket and has recently begun a biography of
Lincoln Kirstein.
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Board of Directors,
2009-2010:
Marysol Asencio belongs to the Department of Human Development and Family Studies and the Department of Puerto Rican and Latino Studies at the University of Connecticut – Storrs.
David Allyn is the author of four books, including Make Love, Not War: The Sexual Revolution, An Unfettered History (Routledge, 2002). His articles and reviews have appeared in scholarly journals such as American Studies, The Journal of American Studies, and Teachers College Record, as well as in publications such as The New York Times Magazine and The Advocate and he can be seen in documentaries on the History Channel and Vh1. He has received writing awards from the New York Foundation for the Arts and the Deep South Writers Conference; his plays Baptizing Adam and Writers Colony both deal with themes of sexual orientation and identity. David holds a Ph.D. in History from Harvard and a B.A. from Brown and is a former member of the Princeton University faculty. He is currently the Director of Development for NJ SEEDS (Scholars, Educators, Excellence, Dedication, Success).
Jason Baumann is Coordinator of Collection Assessment & LGBT Collections at
the New York Public Library, as well as Visiting Associate Professor at the
Pratt Institute's School of Information and Library Science. He has his MLS
from Queens College, his MFA from City College, and is currently pursuing a
PhD in English at the CUNY Graduate Center.
Rafael de la Dehesa is an Assistant Professor in
the Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Social Work at the
College of Staten Island of the City University of New York.
His current research focuses on LGBT social movement activism in
Latin America and on how political parties in the region have
taken up the debates on sexuality.
Jack Drescher, M.D., is Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry at New York Medical College, a Training and Supervising Analyst at the William Alanson White Institute, and a Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association (APA). He is Emeritus Editor of the Journal of Gay and Lesbian Mental Health and President-Elect of the Group for Advancement of Psychiatry.
Anthony Escobar is the Director of Development and Planning at Polytechnic University.
Thomas Glave is the author of Whose Song? and Other Stories (City Lights), a collection of essays, Words To Our Now: Imagination and Dissent (Minnesota; winner of a 2005 Lambda Literary Award), the forthcoming The Torturer's Wife (fiction; City Lights), and editor of the forthcoming anthology Our Caribbean: A Gathering of Lesbian and Gay Writing from the Antilles(Duke, 2008).
A founding member of the Jamaica Forum for Lesbians, All-Sexuals, and Gays (J-FLAG), he is Martin Luther King Jr. Visiting Professor in Writing and Humanistic Studies at MIT.
Gayatri Gopinath is Associate Professor of Department of Social and Cultural Analysis at NYU. She earned her B.A. in Latin American Studies at Wesleyan University and her M.A. and Ph.D. in English at Columbia University (1994, 1998). Dr. Gopinath is the author of Impossible Desires: Queer Diasporas and South Asian Public Cultures (Duke University Press, 2005).
Yukiko Hanawa teaches in the Department of East Asian
Studies at New York University.
Daniel Hurewitz Daniel Hurewitz is Assistant Professor of History at Hunter College, CUNY. He has written about the LGBT history of both New York and Los Angeles, and teaches courses in the history of sexuality, as well as general U.S. history.
Rosamond King is a scholar of international arts and culture, as well as a writer and performer. Her essays and articles on visual art, dance, and literature have appeared in numerous magazines and journals. She is Assistant Professor of English at Brooklyn College, CUNY.
Heather Love is Associate Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of Feeling Backward: Loss and the Politics of Queer History (Harvard, 2007) and the co-editor of a special issue of New Literary History ("Is There Life after Identity Politics?"). She is currently at work on a book on the source materials for Erving Goffman's 1963 book, Stigma: On the Management of Spoiled Identity ("The Stigma Archive").
Neil Meyer is a member of the English Department at the Graduate Center at the City University of New York.
Christopher Mitchell is a member of the History Department at Rutgers University-New Brunswick, where he is writing a dissertation entitled, "Condensed to the Point of Explosion": Liber(aliz)ation, Structural Change, and the Changing Market Culture of New York City's Queer Sub-Cultures, 1966-1987." He regularly teaches queer history at both the New Brunswick and Newark campuses.
Jennifer Mitchell is a member of the English Department at the Graduate Center at the City University of New York.
Anahi Russo Garrido is a PhD candidate in the Women’s and Gender Studies
department at Rutgers University. She also holds an MA in Cultural
Anthropology from Concordia Univeristy, Canada. She has worked with
women’s rights organizations in Mexico, Canada, and the United States on
organizing and movement building. She is the co-editor of "Building
Feminist Movements: Global Perspectives" (2007) and the author of articles
on queer spaces and the lesbian movement in Mexico City in WSQ and NWSA
journal. Her research currently focuses on gender and sexuality in Latin
America, place and space, queer theory, and nationalism.
Saadia Toor is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the College of Staten Island, CUNY. Her areas of interest include the intersection of gender/sexuality and globalization, nationalism and state formation.
(on sabbatical for 2009 - 2010 academic year)
Sara Warner is an Assistant Professor of Theater at Cornell. She also teaches in the Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Program. Her work has appeared in Theater Journal, Feminist Studies, and Dialectical Anthropology, among other journals.
Born in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Dagmawi Woubshet is an assistant professor of English at Cornell University, where he teaches courses on African-American and comparative African Diaspora literature and culture. He received his bachelor's degree from Duke University and his Ph.D. from Harvard University. His scholarly interests include critical race and sexuality studies, contemporary black visual culture, translation, and vernacular Ethiopian poetics. His essays have appeared in Callaloo,Transition,Art South Africa and NKA: Journal of Contemporary African Art. Currently, he is completing a book entitled, Looking for the Dead: AIDS, Poetics and Politics, a comparative study of AIDS writing in the United States, South Africa and Ethiopia. A true itinerant, he splits his time among Ithaca, New York City, and Addis Ababa.
Leo Wilton, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of Human Development and Africana Studies at the State University of New York at Binghamton. His primary research interests include health disparities (HIV and AIDS); community based research and evaluation; and Black psychological development and mental health. His scholarly research on the AIDS epidemic focuses on the intersectionality of race, gender, and sexuality, particularly as related to the experiences of Black gay and bisexual men. The overall objective of Dr. Wilton's program of research has been to focus on the impact of socio-cultural factors that influence sexual/drug-risk and protective behavior and mental health for Black gay and bisexual men in urban communities. He was recently appointed to and serves on the National Institute of Health (NIH) Director's Council of Public Representatives.
Rebecca (Beck) Young is an Assistant Professor of Women's Studies at Barnard
College. Trained in sociomedical sciences at Columbia University (PhD
2000), Beck teaches and conducts research in the areas of sexuality,
gender, health, and critical science studies.
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Staff:
Naveed Alam is the Events and Outreach Coordinator and edits CLAGSNews. He teaches English at John Jay College. His first collection of poems, A Queen of No Ordinary Realms, won the Spokane Poetry Prize and his work has appeared or is forthcoming in numerous magazines including Prairie Schooner, Poetry International, International Poetry Review, The American Poetry Journal, The Marlboro Review, and The Seattle Review.
Lauren Gutterman has been the Project Coordinator for
OutHistory.org
since June 2008. She is also a Ph.D. candidate in NYU's History Department where she is focusing on gender and sexuality in the 20th century US. She is working on a dissertation about the role married women played in lesbian communities during the 1950s and 1960s.
