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George Chauncey is the DeWitt Clinton Professor of American History at Columbia University, leading the Columbia Research Initiative on the Global History of Sexualities. His work focuses on gender, sexuality, and urban culture, particularly LGBTQ history in the U.S. He has contributed to landmark legal cases, including Supreme Court rulings on marriage equality.
Education: Ph.D. in History from Yale University (1989), B.A. from Yale (1977). Before Columbia, he taught at the University of Chicago and Yale, where he chaired the History Department and Committee for LGBT Studies.
Research interests include postwar New York City’s LGBTQ communities, the intersection of law and sexuality, and transnational queer histories. He consults on public history projects, including exhibitions at the New York Public Library and Library of Congress.
Awardees include the Library of Congress’s John W. Kluge Prize (2022), Yale’s Sidonie Miskimin Clauss Prize (2012), and numerous fellowships. His writings have appeared in The Atlantic, New York Times, and The New Yorker.
Advising roles include mentoring students at Yale and University of Chicago; grants include Guggenheim and National Humanities Center fellowships. Active in public engagement, he chairs the New-York Historical Society’s Board of Trustees.
Current projects include a book on postwar LGBTQ life in New York’s segregated neighborhoods, blending archival research with oral histories.
