New Publication: Where Are We? The Method of Mapping with GIS in Digital Humanities
I am terrifically honored to have my article, “Where Are We? The Method of Mapping with GIS in Digital Humanities,” in the …
Joining the University of Kentucky Department of Geography
As of today, I’ve joined the Department of Geography of the University of Kentucky. I am thrilled to be on this new …
Announcing My Book Contract with NYU Press for _A Queer New York_!
I am thrilled to announce that I have signed a contract with NYU Press for my in-progress book, A Queer New York: …
In Sociological Review: We Never Left Laramie: White LGBTQ Consciousness Post-Election 2016
Immediately after the election, my colleague/friend Emma Jackson at Goldsmiths asked to be part of The Sociological Review‘s rapid response collection to …
U.S. National Park Service Essays on LGBTQ History Released
WOOHOO! The LGBTQ America: A Theme Study of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer History theme study has been released by the …
Interviewed for “Home Games: The Strange Overlapping Borders of Sports Fandom”
Rick Paulas is a fantastic journalist who is as enthralled with environmental psychology as I am. We recently spoke about the way …
Publication: Review of “Safe Space” for Gender, Place and Culture
My review of Christina Hanhardt‘s utterly delicious Safe Space: Gay Neighborhood History and the Politics of Violence is available online and below …
Publication: Dyked New York chapter in The Routledge Research Companion to Geographies of Sex and Sexualities
I’m thrilled my new chapter, “Dyked New York: The Space between Geographical Imagination and Materialization of Lesbian–Queer Bars and Neighbourhoods,” is out …
Dancing with Hortense Spillers & Other Reflections on the Futures of American Studies Institute 2016
Futures of American Studies Institute 2016 #fasi16 took place June 20th-26th at Dartmouth College in Hanover, NH. Below are tweets Pt. I or II. See the full schedule here http://www.dartmouth.edu/~futures/schedule/. Tweets from Part II can be found at http://bit.ly/fasi16storifypart2of2.
Teaching Queer America
This spring I taught two incredibly exciting courses. The senior seminar, Queer America, was comprised of a small group of students, primarily …
Appearing on the BBC World Services
I am honored to share that insights from my research were heard around the world for two minutes on August 23rd, 2016, …
New Research Project: Trans Tumblr
For about two years, I’ve been collecting data on the use of the #ftm hashtag and, for a shorter time, #mtf hashtag …
Didn’t I Just Get Here? Or: Reflections on My First Tenure-Track Semester
Whoa. It was August 1st and a chemist friend (god bless you, Ryan) and I are in a U-Haul on I-495 wrapping …
Reflecting on the 1980s Course
Belinda Carlisle was right: heaven is indeed a place on earth. For me that would be the experience of teaching my American …
Publication: Queering the Meaning of Neighborhood
Some time ago now, my chapter “Queering the Meaning of ‘Neighborhood’: Reinterpreting the Lesbian-Queer Experience of Park Slope, Brooklyn, 1983-2008” came out …