George Chauncey Biography

George Chauncey Professor of History and director of the Columbia Research Initiative on the Global History of Sexualities works on the history of gender sexuality and the city with a particular focus on American LGBTQ history. He is the author of Gay New York: Gender Urban Culture and the Making of the Gay Male World 1890-1940 and Why Marriage? The History Shaping Today’s Debate over Gay Equality. Since 1993 he has participated as an expert witness in more than thirty gay rights cases including Romer v. Evans (1996) Lawrence v. Texas (2003) and the marriage equality cases decided by the Supreme Court in 2013 and 2015. He has also served as historical consultant to numerous public history projects including exhibitions and lecture series at the New York Public Library and Chicago History Museum and several documentary films. Before coming to Columbia in fall 2017 he taught at the University of Chicago and at Yale University where he served as chair of the History Department and chair of the Committee for LGBT Studies and was awarded Yale’s prize for teaching excellence in the humanities. He is currently completing a book on race urbanism and gay male culture and politics in postwar New York City.
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