2007:
Clare Hemmings
is Senior Lecturer in Gender Theory at the London School of Economics and Political Science in the UK. Her project, “Bisexuality, Transnational Sexuality Studies and Western Colonial Legacies,” explores the work that bisexuality does within the expanding field of transnational sexuality studies. Clare asks why it is that bisexuality matters in relation to dilemmas within the field, particularly those concerning naming of sexual practices outside of contexts where sexual identity categories are readily available. Her focus is thus not on what bisexuality is, or which practices, where, might nestle under the term, but on what the absence or presence of bisexuality means for theorists of transnational sexuality. The work so far has highlighted ways in which citation of bisexuality locks transnational queer studies into a developmental paradigm it might otherwise wish to challenge.
2006:
Susan Stryker
is beginning research for a biographical film about Christine Jorgensen, the working title of
which is "Christine in the Cutting Room." It focuses on Jorgensen's career as a photographer and film maker.
(Honorable Mention)
Kathryn Conrad received the Duberman honorable mention for “Space
for Change: Sex, Knowledge, and the Politics of Public Space,” a
book-length project on visibility, sexuality, and political epistemology
in Northern Ireland.
2005:
E. Patrick Johnson
is Associate Professor of Performance Studies and African American Studies
and Director of Graduate Studies at Northwestern University. His
research project, Sweet Tea: An Oral History of Black Gay Men of the
South, examines the oral histories of black gay men who were born,
raised, and continue to reside in the South. Gathering oral histories
from black gay men between the ages of 19 and 93 from states that were a
part of the confederacy, Johnson tries to fill a void in the historical
accounts of racialized sexual minorities in the South. Ultimately, Johnson
hopes that this project will complicate gay histories that suggest that gay
subcultures flourished mostly in northern, urban, industrial cities, by
theorizing the South as a “vital” subculture and reconsidering this region
as “backward” and “repressive” when clearly gay community building and
desire emerge simultaneously from within and against southern culture.
(Honorable Mention)
Jim Hubbard
received a Duberman Award honorable mention for the “ACT UP Oral History
Project,” an archive of interviews with ACT UP organizers. Interview
transcripts and video clips of the project can be seen at
http://www.actuporalhistory.org
2004:
Gabriela Cano is a Professor of History at the Universidad
Autónoma Metropolitana-Iztapalapa in Mexico. Cano’s project,
entitled “Colonel Robles Intimate Joy: Gender Battles in the Mexican
Revolution,” is a cultural history of Amelio Robles, (previously known as Amelia
Robles), a transgendered officer in the revolutionary army led by Emiliano
Zapata. The study offers both a biography of Robles that highlights
his self presentation - through pose, gesture, and photography - and a
study of his contested public image before and after his death. The
work goes beyond Robles' specific life history and engages the rhetoric of
gender in the
public discourse of nationalism in 20th century Mexico. Cano has
published extensively and is co-editing a forthcoming collection, Gender in
Postrevolutionary Mexico, to be published in the United States, and a
multivolume history of women in Spain and Latin America, to be published
in Spain.
(Honorable Mention)
Juan Pablo Sutherland is a writer and independent queer
activist in Chile. His project, entitled “Latin American Queer Theory:
Politics, Homophobia and Cultural Practices,” explores the history and
representations of homosexuality in Chile. Sutherland is the author of
the short story collections, Angles Negroes (1994) and Santo
Roto (1999), and is editor of A Corazón Abierto: Geografía
Literaria de la Homosexualidad en Chile (2002) a groundbreaking
collection of LGBT writing from Chile.
2003:
Ben Singer, a PhD candidate in Literatures in
English at Rutgers University. His research is a comparative ethnographic study of
how trans re-embodiment and sexuality is regulated and contested between
public health and grassroots “community” networks. As a transman,
Singer is doubly implicated as researcher and research subject, placing
him in a “nexus of theorization” that serves as the framework for his
project. Singer backs his theorizing with experience by volunteering with
the Philadelphia Community Health Alternatives and Prevention Point needle
exchange, focusing on public health and harm reduction efforts for trans
individuals. By challenging and critiquing modern western sexual
paradigms, Singer hopes to contribute to a greater understanding of gender
and sexuality that will be useful in improving the lives of transpeople.
(Honorable Mention)
Ellen Lewin is a Professor in the Departments of Women’s Studies and Anthropology at the
University of Iowa. Her research examines the experience of gay men who are or seek to become
fathers by investigating the moral and cultural claims that actual or potential parenthood
allows them to make. Her research questions the assumptions about the centrality of motherhood
in shaping gender, the position of fathers within families, and the designations of appropriate
maternal and paternal spheres. Lewin conducts most of her research in the Chicago area
2002:
Paul
VanDeCarr. He is a writer and filmmaker who lives in San Francisco. He
was founder and coordinator of Telling the Story, an arts program which
utilizes storytelling and oral history for community welfare. He has
worked with both the Boston Lesbian/Gay Film Festival and the San
Francisco International Lesbian/Gay Film Festival, and produced "The
Anti-Gay Agenda: Homosexuality and the Religious Right," a
documentary for a conference of LGTBQ seminarians. VanDeCarr’s current
project is "November," a film that looks at the connections
between the Jonestown tragedy and the Milk/Moscone murders in 1978 in
hopes of expanding public understanding of a critical moment in San
Francisco—and American—history.
(Honorable Mentions)
Kathy Conrad is Assistant Professor of
English at the University of Kansas and
teaches courses ranging from Irish culture and literature to women’s autobiography.
She is currently completing a book manuscript, Locked in the Family Cell: Gender, Sexuality,
and Political Agency in Irish Discourses of the Nation, which looks at the relationship
among gender, sexuality, and nation, and, in particular, the ways in which narratives shape
political rhetoric and political agency. She has previously received the Dermot McGlinchey
award for her work in Irish Studies and has recently lectured on lesbianism in Irish feminist
writing, on sodomy and sovereignty in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland, and on
the Irish Lesbian and Gay Organization.
Laurence Senelick is Fletcher Professor of Drama at Tufts University and has
published widely on gender, performance, and the arts. He has published The Changing Room:
Sex, Drag and Theatre, which received the George Freedley Award’s Honorable Mention for best
theatre book of 2000 from the Theatre Library Association and the George Jean Nathan Award for
Dramatic Criticism. He is currently conducting research for his next book, Picturing Perverts:
Popular Imagery of Sexual Deviates, which will trace the evolution of popular imagery of what
is now referred to as the gay man and the lesbian woman from the Reformation to the Second
World War.
2001:
James Green. He is
examining the interaction of Brazilian social and cultural norms with the
lesbian and gay movement, including the significant interchange between
lesbians and gay men, and currently works in Latin American history at
California State University, Long Beach.
2000:
Michael Bronski. His work explores
shifts in conceptualizing outsider status and citizenship that occurred
during the 1950s as the restrictions of overt (although not covert)
discrimination changed for American Jews, and a more vocal and visible
"minority" of homosexuals emerged into mainstream
consciousness.
