2023 | 2022 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018
Note: Rubenstein Library travel grant and fellowship programs paused during the 2021-2022 academic year due to the pandemic.
2023-2024
Courtney Block, Faculty, Indiana University Southeast Library, “Rhea White & Margaret Anderson Letters.”
Adam Kocurek, Ph.D. candidate, CUNY Graduate Center, “Academic Closets and Labor Trials: LGBTQ+ Academics and Activism in the Industry from 1960-Present.”
Suisui (Sway) Wang, Ph.D. candidate, Department of Gender Studies, Indiana University Bloomington, “Answering the Call(s): Sexual Politics of Hotlines and Technopolitics of Sexuality.”
2022-2023
Mori Reithmayr, Ph.D. candidate, University of Oxford, “Community Before Liberation: Theorizing Gay Resistance in San Francisco, 1953-1969.”
Cathleen Rhodes, Faculty, Department of Women’s Studies, Old Dominion University, “Touring Tidewater: An Immersive Virtual Walking Tour of Southeastern Virginia’s Queer History.”
2020-2021
Caitlyn Parker, Ph.D. candidate, American Studies, Purdue University, Lesbians politically organizing against the carceral state from 1970-2000
Amanda Stafford, Ph.D. candidate, School of History, University of Leeds, “The Radical Press and the New Left in Georgia, 1968-1976”
2019-2020
Jonathan Coleman, Independent Researcher: Anywhere, Together: A Queer History of Kentucky
Benjamin Serby, Doctoral Candidate, Columbia University, History Department: Gay Liberation and the Politics of the Self in Postwar America
2018-2019
Eric Denby, Ph.D. candidate, History, University of Illinois, for dissertation research "Gay Youth Organizing from 1965-1985."
Adrian Kane, Ph.D. candidate, History, University of Washington, "Narrating Sex: Transitional Bodies and Expertise in the British Empire and Commonwealth, 1918-1975." Rubenstein Library Blog Post: "Curating the Self: The Dawn Langley Simmons Papers and Transgender History" (Image above right: Front endpapers of Dawn Langley Simmons’s diary, 1975)
