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2008 - 2009 FELLOWSHIP AND AWARDS WINNERS | |||||||||||||||||||
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With a large number of qualified and impressive applications to consider, deciding on
winners is always a difficult process for the CLAGS fellowship committee. CLAGS is delighted to recognize and support
some of the exciting new work being done in the field of queer studies.
We send out special thanks to the generous
supporters who helped make these awards possible, particularly CLAGS founder
Martin Duberman, David Kessler, Diane Bernard, Joe Wittreich, and all the individual
contributors to our fellowships programs. 2008 - 2009 MARTIN DUBERMAN FELLOWSHIP Nadine Hubbs"Unmapped Country: Gay and Lesbian Country Music Fandom" Nadine Hubbs, Associate Professor of Women’s Studies and Music at the University of Michigan, where she serves as Women’s Studies undergraduate director and co-director of the Lesbian-Gay-Queer Research Initiative. Her project, “Unmapped Country: Gay and Lesbian Country Music Fandom,” examines a cultural form that is for many people what homophobia and racism sound like, and asks how it has come to serve as a medium for culturally diverse queer social and sexual exchange. Through social theory, cultural history, music criticism, and empirical study of gay country fandom, Hubbs will explore how lesbian and gay fans use country music to forge social and erotic worlds that interweave queer, rural, and working-class cultures and thus bridge the seemingly opposite identities of “redneck” and queer. 2008 - 2009 Martin Duberman Honorable Mention Christopher Reed received the Duberman honorable mention for "Art and Homosexuality: A History of Ideas," a book project about the way ideas about art and about sexual identity are intertwined in the history of the avant-garde. Reed's study traces the development of ideas about the "artist" and the "homosexual" as they developed in relation to one another, challenging the common idea that the avant-garde functioned as a site of significant resistance to definitions and disciplines of sexuality generated by medicine and the law.2008 - 2009 JOAN HELLER-DIANE BERNARD FELLOWSHIPS Mignon R. Moore, Ph.D“Social Histories of Black American and Caribbean Lesbians and Gay Men" Mignon R. Moore is assistant professor of sociology at UCLA. She is a board member of the Ford Foundation University Consortium for Sexuality Research & Training, and serves on the editorial boards of Contemporary Sociology and the Journal of Marriage and Family. Professor Moore’s research on gender, race, sexuality, family and aging has been published in the American Sociological Review, the American Journal of Sociology, Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, Ethnic and Racial Studies and Journal of Marriage and Family. Currently, she is completing a book manuscript titled Invisible Families: Gay Identities, Relationships and Motherhood among Black Women based on her three year, mixed-methods study of black American and Caribbean women in New York. Her study, “Social Histories of Black American and Caribbean Lesbians and Gay Men" will collect oral history and video-recorded data for a two-city study of approximately 25 black American and Caribbean LGBT seniors born in or before 1954. It will examine how they understood and experienced a gay sexuality in the context of other group memberships based on race, gender, and class during the 1960s and 1970s liberation movements, and how their presence in their racial communities may have influenced aspects of heterosexual culture (for example through music, language and style). It will also examine the current experiences of LGBT seniors with their gay sexuality as they enter the golden years of their lives.
Jen Gieseking Frank Leon Roberts Towards an Ethics of Affection: Queers of Color, AIDS Activism and the Politics of Belonging Frank Leon Roberts is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Performance Studies at NYU. He received his B.A. in English and African American Studies from NYU’s Gallatin School in 2004. His fields of interest include contemporary African American art; film and video, critical race theory, and queer theory and criticism. He also specializes in issues related to AIDS and queer politics/alternative media. He is currently at work at two research projects: one that examines the ethics of AIDS activism among poor and working class queer men of color in New York City (entitled Towards an Ethics of Affection: Queers of Color, AIDS Activism and the Politics of Belonging) and a second project that focuses on black masculinity and aesthetic unbelonging in post-civil rights African American art (entitled Punks: Blackness and the Politics of 'Passivity'). He is a recipient of the 2009 Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellowship Award. 2008 - 2009 CLAGS Fellowship Honorable Mention Christina B. Hanhardt“Safe Space”: The Sexual and City Politics of Violence, 1965-2005 The CLAGS Honorable mention goes to Christina B. Hanhardt, an Assistant professor in the Department of American Studies and core faculty in the LGBT Studies Program at the University of Maryland, College Park. She is also editor of the newsletter for the Committee on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History, an affiliated society of the American Historical Association. Her research focuses on the history of U.S. LGBT social movements and contested urban development. She is completing a book manuscript about gay neigh borhoods and the politics of safety since the 1960s, with a focus on the relationship between activism against violence and the race- and class- stratification of the city. Broadly, it examines the transformation of LGBT politics alongside the popular uptake of neoliberal ideologies during these years. Part of this research was published as “Butterflies, Whistles, and Fists: Gay Safe Streets Patrols and the ‘New Gay Ghetto’ 1976-1981,” Radical History Review, Winter 2008 (100). Kessler Lecture: Ghost Dances: A Trans-movement Manifesto Susan Stryker works as a scholar, public intellectual, and media-maker. Her historical research and theoretical texts continuously shape and reshape the scope of transgender studies. Stryker is a two-time Lambda Literary Award Finalist for her books Gay by the Bay: A History of Queer Culture in San-Francisco, co-authored with Jim Van Buskirk and Queer Pulp: Peverse Passion in the Golden Age of the Paperback, and a Lambda Literary Award Winner for her anthology The Transgender Studies Reader (co-edited with Stephen Whittle). Stryker's most recent book, Transgender History launched Seal Press's new Seal Studies line of primer texts on contemporary issues in feminism. Stryker won an emmy for her public television documentary Screaming Queens: The Riot at Comptom's Cafeteria (directed, written, and produced with Victor Silverman). She served as Executive Director of the GLBT Historical Society in San Francisco between 1999 and 2003. At the time of the Kessler Lecture, Stryker was a visiting faculty at Harvard University in the Committee on Degrees in Women, Gender, and Sexuality. Stryker's projects included a book, Sex Change City: Theorizing Urban Trans/Formation in San Francisco, and an experimental film, Christine in the Cutting Room, about the “cinematics of transsexual embodiment” in the work of 1950s celebrity Christine Jorgensen. 2008 - 2009 Robert Giard Fellowship Winner Giard Fellowship Award winner is Sonali Gulati of Richmond, Virginia, for her project, “Out & About,” a short personal documentary film recounting her travels in India where she presents a portrait of four families dealing with LGBTQ identified children.Sonali Gulati is an Assistant Professor at Virginia Commonwealth University’s Department of Photography & Film. She has an MFA in Film & Media Arts from Temple University and a BA in Critical Social Thought from Mount Holyoke College. Ms. Gulati has made several short films that have screened at over two hundred film festivals worldwide. She has won awards, grants and fellowships from the Third Wave Foundation, World Studio Foundation, the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, and the Theresa Pollak Award for Excellence in the Arts, amongst several others. Her upcoming documentary project Out & About is a noteworthy film on parents of LGBT youth in India for which Gulati was awarded the Robert Giard Fellowship. 2008 - 2009 Robert Giard Fellowship Finalists Zanele Muholi, Parktown, Johannesburg, South AfricaFor her project Ukukhumbula, a Zulu word which means ‘to remember,’ a photographic art project which aims to commemorate and preserve the life and histories of black lesbians in South Africa and beyond.
2008 - 2009 Out History Fellowships Joey Plaster is a freelance journalist and independent scholar. his proposed exhibit, The Polk Gulch History Project, will feature oral history interviews with residents of this San Francisco neighborhood. Plaster argues that the Polk Gulch has been a national destination "for some of the most underrepresented segments of the queer community" including homeless youth, Asian and Latin American immigrants, poor transgendered women, and seniors. As gentrification is currently displacing Polk Gulch's queer residents document their histories and preserve their voices. The Outhistory fellowship will allow Plaster to expand his project using material at San Francisco's GLBT Historical Society, newspapers, diaries and transcriptions of interviews conducted in the 1980's.Tristan Cabello is a Ph.D. candidate in Northwestern University's History Department. Cabello's proposed exhibit Queer Bronzeville: An Exhibit on Race, Homosexuality and Urban Boundaries in Chicago, will cover fifty years of history in this predominantly black neighborhood. Cabello contends that beginning in the 1930s a "visible and well-accepted queer culture" emerged in Bronzeville. While queers were accommodated in Bronzeville until the late 1940s, they were increasingly persecuted as they became more politically organized. In the midst of the AIDS crisis, they were ignored by both the African American and white-dominated gay media. Cabello will use his OutHistory fellowship to gather materials from archives at the Schomburg Center for African American Research, the GLBT Historical Society, the Library of Congress and Yale University. 2008 - 2009 Student Travel Award 2009Jen Gieseking, a Ph.D. Candidate of Environmental Psychology at the CUNY Graduate Center, was granted the Spring 2009 Student Travel Award for presentation of her paper Constellating an (In)Visible World: Lesbians and Queer Women’s Everyday Places in New York City (1983-2008) at the Association of American Geographers Conference held in Las Vegas, Nevada on March 22nd – 27th, 2009. In her paper, Gieseking drew upon focus groups and mental mapping exercises from women who came out between 1983 and 2008, as well as archival materials regarding lesbians and queer women’s spaces in that period. Future findings will indicate that lesbians’ and queer women’s spaces and places are formed in constellations of physical places, social networks, events, politics, media, and public personalities that individual women link together to actualize their own identities.
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