CLAGS Fellowship & Award Winners

	Starting June 2: Seminar in the City: Queer Migrations

PASSING THE TORCH AWARD WINNERS

2007:
Marcia M. Gallo is a lesbian social justice activist who has taught the history of sexuality, U.S. and New York history, and American Studies at Lehman College for the last three years. She is the author of Different Daughters: A History of the Daughters of Bilitis and the Rise of the Lesbian Rights Movement (Carroll & Graf, 2006), the first and only full-length work to explore the pioneering American women’s organization. It won the 2006 Lambda Literary Foundation Award for LGBT Nonfiction and was a finalist for the 2006 Publishing Triangle Judy Grahn Award. Different Daughters also was named one of the best books of 2006 by the San Francisco Chronicle. Gallo has researched and written about Cold War women’s history, focusing on the ways in which women of color, working and poor women, and sexually nonconforming women organized for civil and human rights in the U.S. and internationally. She is now working on a book about Catherine “Kitty” Genovese, who was murdered in Queens, New York in 1964 and became an international symbol of urban apathy and the failure of community.

2006:
Christopher (Kitt) Carpenter is an Assistant Professor of Economics/Public Policy at The Paul Merage School of Business at University of California – Irvine. Previously he spent two years at the University of Michigan School of Public Health as a Robert Wood Johnson Postdoctoral Scholar in Health Policy. His research considers the causes and consequences of youth alcohol use. He is also interested in the effects of workplace substance abuse policies and the role of sexual orientation in determining economic outcomes. Dr. Carpenter has published extensively in research journals, and he has a chapter titled “Do Straight Men ‘Come Out’ at Work Too? The Heterosexual Male Marriage Premium and Discrimination Against Gay Men,” forthcoming in Bias without Borders: International Evidence of Sexual Orientation Discrimination, edited by M.V. Lee Badgett and Jeff Frank (Routledge, 2006).

2005:
Gayatri Gopinath is an Associate Professor of Women and Gender Studies at the University of California, Davis. Her book, Impossible Desires: Queer Diasporas and South Asian Public Cultures (Durham: Duke UP 2005), examines the how the notion of a queer diaspora challenges both heteronormative nationalist and diasporic ideologies, as well as homonormative queer ones. She has published widely on South Asian popular film, music and literature in the diaspora in journals such as GLQ, Positions, and Social Text, as well as numerous anthologies. Her next project looks at the question of queerness and notions of the region in order to map south-south connections between sexual economies in seemingly "marginal" locations.

2004:
Dwight McBride is an Associate Professor of English and African American Studies, and Chair of African American Studies at Northwestern University. He has published widely in the areas of literature, race theory and black cultural studies. He is the editor of James Baldwin Now (NYU Press, 1999) and co-editor of Black Like Us: A Century of Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual African American Fiction (Cleis Press, 2002). His latest work, Why I Hate Abercrombie and Fitch: Essays on Race and Sexuality in the U.S., is forthcoming from NYU Press in 2004.

2003:
Siobhan Somerville is Associate Professor of English and Women's Studies at the University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign), and is the author of Queering the Color Line: Race and the Invention of Homosexuality in American Culture (Duke UP, 2000). She has edited "Queer Fictions of Race," a special issue of Modern Fiction Studies (2002); and (with Judith Roof), "Recent Lesbian Theory," a special issue of Concerns. Her work has also appeared journals such as American Literature and the Journal of the History of Sexuality. Her current work explores questions of citizenship, sexuality, and race in American law, fiction, and film in the U.S. from 1940-1968.

2002:
Robert McRuer is currently Assistant Professor of English at George Washington University. He published The Queer Renaissance: Contemporary American Literature and the Reinvention of Lesbian and Gay Identities in 1997 and has edited the forthcoming Desiring Disability, a special issue of GLQ that looks at queer theory and disability studies. He attended the National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute on Disability Studies and is currently working on a book project tentatively titled De-Composing Bodies: Cultural Signs of Queerness and Disability.

2001:
Molly McGarry is currently a lecturer in the department of History at Bryn Mawr College. In 1994, she was co-curator of the New York Public Library's groundbreaking exhibition, Becoming Visible: The Legacy of Stonewall and co-authored the follow-up publication entitled Becoming Visible: An Illustrated History of Lesbian and Gay Life in Twentieth Century America (Viking/Penguin, 1998). Her dissertation, "Haunting Reason: Spiritualism and the Cultural Politics of Nineteenth-Century America," was nominated for an Allan Nevins Award for best dissertation in American History by the Society of American Historians and was awarded NYU's Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Dean's Dissertation Award.

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