Pedagogy

Reading the History of Sexuality Collectively in the Digital Age

By Charles Upchurch August 13, 2015 Digital Humanities, Pedagogy 0 comments

Using digital technology to replace traditional pedagogical methods with “collective reads”.

The Obergefell Syllabus: Historicizing Same-Sex Marriage in the United States

By notcheseditor June 27, 2015 Pedagogy, Post-1945 United States 4 comments

On June 26, 2015, the Supreme Court’s Obergefell v. Hodges decision established the constitutional right of same-sex couples to marry in all 50 states. Discussions of the United States national past abounded in the majority opinion and in the dissents. The words “history” / “historical” / “historic” appear in the […]

A Sexologist and his two Archives: Erwin J. Haeberle

By Jana Funke March 19, 2015 Medicine and Sexuality, Pedagogy Comments are Disabled

Interviewed by Heike Bauer and Jana Funke Erwin J. Haeberle is the founder of two archives – the “Haeberle-Hirschfeld-Archive” and the “Archive for Sexology” – which between them constitute one of the most significant collections of sexological work and related materials available. Initially a literary scholar in the 1960s, Haeberle’s discovery of the […]

Teaching Queer History

By Chris Parkes February 7, 2015 Dispatches, LGBTQ, Pedagogy 0 comments

Chris Parkes In the bleary morning hours on day two of the 129th American Historical Association Conference five teachers and scholars treated the twenty or so occupants of Concourse Room F in the New York Hilton to a seminar entitled “Teaching Queer History”. Despite nearly half a century of research […]

Believe It: Finding Religion in the History of U.S. Sexuality

By Gillian Frank November 24, 2014 Pedagogy, Post-1945 United States, Religion and Sexuality 2 comments

Rebecca Davis, Gillian Frank, Bethany Moreton and Heather White For close to a decade, the eminent U.S. historian John D’Emilio has performed an important scholarly service by urging the fields he helped establish—LGBT history and the history of sexuality—to devote more attention to religious themes and actors. In 2004, he addressed the recently […]

Notches Back to School Special: Introducing Students to the History of Sexuality

By Gillian Frank September 11, 2014 Pedagogy 0 comments

Gillian Frank Learning new names, establishing expectations, reviewing the syllabus, and exciting students about course materials are among the many challenges professors face on the first day of class. Those who teach history of sexuality classes face additional hurdles. Many students carry with them fundamental assumptions about sexuality. Often, they think of sexuality as […]

"Coming Out" in the Classroom: When the Personal is Pedagogical

By Justin Bengry June 10, 2014 Pedagogy 15 comments

Justin Bengry I’ve never come out to my students. I’ve never stood at the front of a classroom and told my students that I’m gay, and I’ve never told them witty anecdotes about my husband. That isn’t to say that I’m not completely out both professionally and personally (as google […]