Background

Education

Courses

Scholarship

Publications

Education

• High School Diploma from Spartanburg High School (1989)

• B.A. from Rice University in Houston (1993)

• M.A. from University of Texas at Austin (1996)

• Ph.D. from University of Texas at Austin (2001)

You can also look at my CV, if you wish.

Graduation from Rice U., May 1993

Courses

I have been teaching at Wofford since the Fall 2001.  I teach courses on:

• Western Civilization since 1300,

• Europe in the twentieth century,

• modern Germany,

• imperial Russia from Peter the Great to the Russian Revolution,

• the Soviet Union,

• intellectual history of twentieth-century Europe, and

• the modern Middle East.

You can find syllabi for these classes on my course information page.

Graduate School Friends, UT Austin, May 1996

Scholarship

For my graduate studies, I focused on European history in the twentieth century, with a specialty in German history.  I also have an interest in the study of gender and sexuality.  My dissertation was entitled "Hamburg's Gay Scene in the Age of Family Politics, 1945-1969."

I am currently preparing my first book with the working title: "Between Persecution and Freedom: Homosexuality, Masculinity, and Family Politics in West Germany, 1945-1969."

Publications

Author of Introduction "Gay History in Germany: Future Directions" as well as Guest Editor (along with Daniel Walther) for Special Issue on "Masculinity and Homosexuality in Germany and the German Colonies, 1880-1945," The Journal of the History of Sexuality 17, 1 (January 2008).

"Styles of Masculinity in the West German Gay Scene, 1950-1965," Central European History 39, 3 (Spring 2006): 359-93.

"Masculinity and Desire in the Works of J. R. Ackerley," Journal of Homosexuality 43, 2 (2002): 127-42.