George Chauncey
George Chauncey (* 1954 ) is an American historian.
After finishing school, Chauncey studied history at Yale University and received his Ph.D. in 1989. From 1991 to 2006 he taught history at the University of Chicago . In 2006, he moved to Yale University as Professor of 20th Century American History and Lesbian and Gay History. He has been teaching at Columbia University since 2017 .
His main work, Gay New York , was awarded the Los Angeles Times Book Prize , among others . “An unbelievable amount”, wrote Didier Eribon , thanks to Chauncey's “moving book”.
Publications
- Why Marriage? The History Shaping Today's Debate Over Gay Equality (2004)
- Gay New York. Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940 (1994, updated edition 2019)
Web links
- George Chauncey. Samuel Knight Professor of History & American Studies, Yale University (accessed March 3, 2020)
- Cover story on Chauncey in the University of Chicago alumni magazine
- George Chauncey: The Forgotten History of Gay Entrapment , in: The Atlantic, June 25, 2019
Individual evidence
- ↑ Rick Perlstein: Moment of Decision. In: The University of Chicago Magazine. August 2003, accessed December 11, 2019 .
- ↑ Chauncey, George. DeWitt Clinton Professor of American History. Columbia University
- ↑ D. Eribon, Return to Reims. Berlin 2016. p. 207.
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SURNAME | Chauncey, George |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American historian |
DATE OF BIRTH | 1954 |