Timothy Stewart-Winter

Timothy Stewart-Winter is an associate professor of U.S. history. His first book, Queer Clout: Chicago and the Rise of Gay Politics (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016; paperback, August 2017), won the 2017 John Boswell Prize for the outstanding book in the field of LGBT history, awarded by the American Historical Association’s Committee on LGBT History. He is now working on two new book projects. The first is a study of morals policing and sexual politics in the 1960s. The second is a social and political history of the first decade of the AIDS crisis in the U.S.

His writing has appeared in the Journal of American History, the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Journal of Urban History, Gender & History, the Journal of the History of Sexuality, Dissent, Slate, and the Star-Ledger (N.J.), and he has been interviewed on National Public Radio’s “All Things Considered.” He co-directs the Queer Newark Oral History Project.

Stewart-Winter received his Ph.D. in history from the University of Chicago and his B.A. in history from Swarthmore College, and has received Jacob K. Javits, ACLS/Mellon, and James C. Hormel fellowships.