Marc Stein (historian)

Marc Stein is an American historian and associate professor at York University in Toronto . After graduating from Wesleyan University with a bachelor's degree in history in 1985 , he worked as the editor of Gay Community News in Boston . From 1989 to 1994 he studied at the University of Pennsylvania and received a Ph.D.

Stein himself describes his research focus on his homepage as the history of sex, gender, and sexuality and their interrelationships with American social history and jurisprudence. Stein has also presented several publications in this area, in particular on the development of the case law of the US Supreme Court .

Fonts

as an author

• City of Sisterly and Brotherly Loves. Lesbian and Gay Philadelphia, 1945-1972 . 2nd ed. Temple University Press, Philadelphia (Pennsylvania), 2004, ISBN 1-59213-130-1 .
• The US Supreme Court's Counter-Revolution . In: Organization of American Historians Magazine of History , Vol. 20 (2006), Issue 2, pp. 21-25.
• Boutilier and the US Supreme Court's Sexual Revolution . In: Law and History Review , Vol. 23 (2005), Issue 3, pp. 491-536.

as editor

• Encyclopedia of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History in America. LGBT , 3 volumes. Scribner’s , New York 2003, ISBN 0-684-31261-1 .

Web links

• Short biography on the York University website
• Literature by and about Marc Stein (historian) in the bibliographic database WorldCat