2003:
Horacio Roque Ramírez. The award will help Ramírez complete his book,
based on his dissertation, entitled Communities of Desire: History and
Memory from Queer Latinas and Latinos in the San Francisco Bay Area,
1950s-1990s. In the process of his research, Ramírez has
organized the archives of Latina/Latino community members, and has
conducted interviews that he plans to transcribe and make available to
community and university collections. He describes his project as a
multi-gender and multinational history of queer Latino community
formations that will contribute to queer and Latino historiographies by
racializing the former and queering the latter.
(Honorable Mention)
Maura Reilly is a full-time Lecturer at Tufts University’s Department of Art and Art
History,
and Women’s Studies Program. She is in the process of completing her book based on her
dissertation "Le Vice àla Mode: Gustave Courbet and the Vogue for Lesbianism in Nineteenth-Century
France". "Le Vice àla Mode" is a socio-historical, feminist, queer analysis of the prevalence of
lesbian themes in nineteenth-century French visual culture and literature, using Courbet as a
nucleus within a larger environment of related imagery, discourses, and psychosexual cultural
obsessions.
2002:
Lisa Cohen.
She
received her PhD in Comparative Literature from Yale University and is
currently finishing her contracted book-in-progress, In Their Own
Fashion. This text is an interdisciplinary study of the lives and work
of three overlooked modernist lesbians of the twentieth century: Mercedes
de Acosta, Madge Garland, and Esther Murphy. Cohen argues that the work
and obsessions of these women have helped to produce our current
preoccupations with sexuality and celebrity and confronts the
intersections of capitalism and gay identity head-on. She has taught
courses on Stein and Wolf, consumer culture, and film studies, and has
published articles in Fashion Theory and Yale Journal of
Criticism.
(Honorable Mentions)
Mary Gray is a PhD candidate in Communication at the University of California,
San Diego,
and her research focuses on contemporary lesbian, gay, and bisexual-identifying youth
experiences in the United States. In 1999, she published In Your Face: Stories from the
Lives of Queer Youth, with Haworth Press. She is currently investigating how rural youth
in the U.S. use peers, social support services, and new media technologies to negotiate
sexual and gender identities.
Martin Meeker holds a PhD in History and lectures at San Francisco State University. He
is currently working on a book manuscript, Come Out West: Communication, and the Making
of San Francisco as the Gay Mecca, which is based on his dissertation, under contract with
the University of Chicago Press. This text will be the first book-length history of
homosexual migration in the United States, examining the migration of gay men and
lesbians to San Francisco from the 1920s through the 1960s.
2001:
David Johnson. His work argues that America’s political culture
of the 1950s contributed to a wholesale purge of suspected homosexuals,
resulting from the perception that gays and lesbians were a threat to
American national security, tantamount to the threat posed by Communists. He has also
published several reviews and articles on gay and lesbian histories in America,
including a forthcoming review of William Eskridge's Gaylaw: Challenging the
Apartheid of the Closet (Harvard University Press, 1999).
(Honorable Mentions)
Gayatri Gopinath is Assistant Professor of Women and Gender Studies at University
of California, Davis. Her project, "Contradictory Desires: Diaspora, Queerness, and South
Asian Public Cultures," takes on the question of how to understand the production of
sexuality in the context of postcolonial nationalisms and globalization by focusing on
the South Asian diaspora. Her essay, "Local Sites, Global Contexts: The Transnational
Trajectories of Deepa Mehta's Fire" will appear in the forthcoming publication
Queer Globalization/Local Homosexualities: Citizenship, Sexualities, and the Afterlife
of Colonialism (NYU Press).
Margot Weiss is a PhD candidate in Cultural Anthropology at Duke University. Her
dissertation is an ethnographic study of the lesbian, bisexual, and heterosexual sm
subcultures in San Francisco, situating contemporary sm sexualities within the shifting
dominant understandings of sexuality operating in the US today. Her research will examine
the nature of sexual identity and community, and the performativity of sexuality, gender,
and race in San Francisco's sm communities.
2000:
Anne Enke, University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Her book,
which the fellowship supported, analyzes the emergence and interplay of
diverse sexualities and activist subcultures among African American and
white women in Detroit, Chicago, and Minneapolis-Saint Paul, Minnesota,
from 1960-1980.
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