HIST329T: Queer History in America is an elective course that GVPT students can take over the summer online and asynchronous from July 31st-August 18th.
This course examines American history through frameworks of gender, sexuality, identity, and desire. We will contextualize how these ideas changed unevenly over time and intersected with major moments in the traditional history of America. Beginning before the colonization of America and ending in the present, we will investigate how non-normative desires and identities, broadly construed, evolved in relation to the creation of the American settler state, the rise of racial capitalism, and the growth of modern medicine, among other themes. We will also closely study intimacy, community building, and political organizing as modes of survival, pleasure, and resistance. Thinking both with and beyond the contemporary umbrella of LGBTQIA+ identity, we will interrogate the utility of queerness as a historical framework. Finally, this course will “think queerly” about the work of history, investigating the politics of traditional historical concepts like chronology and time, evidence and archives, and argumentation.
For more information email Sophie Hess at shess@umd.edu.
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