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Christopher Ewing

@christopherewing.bsky.social
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Queer historian at Purdue University working on sex/tourism, race, crime in Germany, the US, and lots of other places. Author of The Color of Desire (Cornell 2023). he/him.

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Christopher Ewing @christopherewing.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Endlich!!!
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Mars Plater @marsplater.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Hello Bluesky! I took a peek beyond the nineteenth-century for Pride! niche-canada.org/2026/06/19/c...
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Celebrating the Past While Constraining the Present: Queer National Parks in New York City
The National Park Service sanitizes and restructures historic queer spaces like Stonewall and Jacob Riis Park, attempting - and often failing - to suppress modern resistance and joy.
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Christopher Ewing @christopherewing.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Had a great time writing on the Black feminist politics of violence in the 90s for this collection and its marvelous editors. Can’t wait to see it out!
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Christopher Ewing @christopherewing.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Had a great time chatting with @hannahva390.bsky.social and @paolamedgonz.bsky.social about queer fascists, sex tourism, and the state of antiracism in Germany. Also Space Lesbians.
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Christopher Ewing @christopherewing.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Thursday, April 16, at 10:45am EST, @laurenstokes.bsky.social will be giving the Purdue History Lab inaugural lecture, sponsored by @ces-europe.bsky.social and the Center for American Political History, Media, and Technology! Join us in UNIV 229 or register here: purdue-edu.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
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Sébastien Tremblay @sebboo.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Join us in 30 min to discuss queer history 🌈🤗
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Christopher Ewing @christopherewing.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Just got my copy of @schuneke.bsky.social fabulous new book! Important new research on the both disturbing and inspiring history of queer women in Nazi Germany. All the more necessary now.
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Christopher Ewing @christopherewing.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Looking forward to the virtual book launch of Reading Queer Media this Friday at 10:30am EST with @sebboo.bsky.social! Join us for a discussion with authors about new methods in queer history. Zoom registration here: purdue-edu.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
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Christopher Ewing @christopherewing.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Excited to share the project that we’ve been working on for the last few years! Join us for virtual the book launch of Reading Queer Media in the German-Speaking World. Registration: purdue-edu.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
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Swen Steinberg @swensteinberg.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
Copies arrived: special issue on "Violence and Social Inequalities" in "Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaft" I've edited with Raphael Rössel @ghiwashington.bsky.social - with articles by Sophia Dafinger, Darius Muschiol and @christopherewing.bsky.social metropol-verlag.de/produkt/zeit...
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Samuel Huneke @schuneke.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
A reminder that I’ll be hosting a virtual discussion with Akane Kanai about her book THE NEW POLITICS OF ONLINE FEMINISM in two weeks. Registration below!
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Christopher Ewing @christopherewing.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
This is going to be an awesome resource for my global queer history class! Really excited to read
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Hongwei Bao (he/him) @queercomrades.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
‘Tracing back to Ming-Qing homoerotic literature and probing into contemporary danmei and GL fiction, this book stages a vibrant dialogue between the queer past and present, and achieves a delicate balance between the serious and the popular.' On Queer Literature in the Sinosphere
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Christopher Ewing @christopherewing.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Excited to see this out! I really enjoyed contributing thoughts racist violence, “gang wars,” and policing in ‘90s Berlin. Thank you @swensteinberg.bsky.social and Raphael Rössel for putting together this important special issue!
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Christopher Ewing @christopherewing.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
I’m so pleased to see our project now in print! - the result of a beautiful collaboration with the amazing @sebboo.bsky.social
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Christiane Reinecke @chreinecke.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
The conference report by Frederik Doktor about our #Workshop Intimacies on the Move that explored the intersecting #histories of #mobilities, #migration, #gender and #sexuality has just been published. I so much enjoyed meeting everybody and discussing their fascinating research!
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Christopher Ewing @christopherewing.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
This volume was the result of over four(!) years of collaboration with @sebboo.bsky.social and the magnificent authors who contributed chapters. I’m so pleased to see it out next month! link.springer.com/book/9783032...
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Reading Queer Media in the German Speaking World
This book places print media at the centre of studying queer German history through the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
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Dr. Katharina Kehl @katkehl.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
"Boundaries of #Queerness" has gotten its first review! Thanks Douglas Page and @poppublicsphere.bsky.social for the considerate and thorough engagement with the book. Particularly pleased to be in the excellent company of @kslootmaeckers.bsky.social and @christopherewing.bsky.social 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
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The Politics of Sexual Minorities | Perspectives on Politics | Cambridge Core
The Politics of Sexual Minorities
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UBC Centre for European Studies @ces.ubc.ca · 02/09/2025
CES is excited to announce our second annual Tobin Distinguished Lecture! Historian and author Dr. Andrea Rottmann will give a talk entitled "From Weimar to Berlin: Queer Democratic Citizenship through Hilde Radusch's Five Lives" on September 12, 12-1:30 PM in BuTo 225 and over Zoom. See you there!
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Nikolaos Papadogiannis @npapadogian.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
This very interesting event is forthcoming!
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Christopher Ewing @christopherewing.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
Pleased to announce with @npapadogian.bsky.social a new books event series, featuring Maria Alexopoulou discussing her two(!) recent books with @laurenstokes.bsky.social. Virtual event, Monday, September 22, at 12pm EDT. purdue-edu.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
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Christopher Ewing @christopherewing.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Going back to Flensburg just for the Zimstschnecken. Than you for hosting us all, @sebboo.bsky.social, in dem echten Norden!
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Christopher Ewing @christopherewing.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
So excited for you, @jonahgarde.bsky.social! I cannot wait to get my hands on a copy
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Christopher Ewing @christopherewing.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Had a great time chatting with @pinatravels.bsky.social and @podthenorth.bsky.social for Curious Tourism about sex tourism, sex work, and how travelers can think about these issues. Spoiler: it’s complicated! open.spotify.com/episode/0B6O...
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Let's Talk About Sex Tourism
Voyascape: Travel Podcast Network · Episode
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Levke Harders @levkeharders.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Am #CGI der #UniInnsbruck ist zurzeit die Historikerin @tnflorvil.bsky.social als Gastprofessorin tätig. Wir freuen uns sehr über ihren Input, den tollen Vortrag über #MayAyim, über Gespräche mit Studierenden und die Lehrveranstaltung: www.uibk.ac.at/de/newsroom/...
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US-Historikerin Tiffany N. Florvil als Gastwissenschaftlerin am CGI
Das Center Interdisziplinäre Geschlechterforschung Innsbruck (CGI) durfte im Rahmen der LFUI-Gastprofessuren im Juni 2025 die renommierte Zeithistorikerin und Kulturwissenschaftlerin Tiffany N. Florvi...
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Mikko Toivanen @mtoiv.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
My book 'Empire, Tourism, and Colonial Knowledge' is now up on the Leiden UP website! Coming out on 17 September (if I can finish checking these proofs before that...) Order for your library if so inclined etc etc.
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Empire, Tourism, and Colonial Knowledge - Leiden University Press
This book provides students with a solid foundation in the basic frameworks and concepts of International Studies.
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Christopher Ewing @christopherewing.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
New article on sex tourism, Spartacus International Gay Guide, and why we have to deal with the confusing, uglier sides of queer history. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... Thank you to @npapadogian.bsky.social, Benno Gammerl, Christiane Reinecke, and Ulrike Schaper for their invaluable guidance!
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The trials of John Stamford: gay travel, sexual harm, and Spartacus International Gay Guide
This article argues that, in order to understand the expanding gay travel worlds of the 1970s and 1980s, it is necessary to follow both gay liberation politics and harmful practices. Just as expand...
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Matt Houlbrook @tricksterprince.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
In among the madness, I'm delighted to have submitted the manuscript for our forthcoming book Incarcerated: Contemporary Photography from the Victorian Prison to @bluecoatpress.bsky.social. Incarcerated brings together @andyaitchison.bsky.social powerful photographs of HMP Lincoln and Liverpool.
A prison officer sits outside the prayer room under the pointed arches within the central atrium inside HMP Lincoln, Lincoln.
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Christopher Ewing @christopherewing.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
“Sexual Frustrations and Dream Vacations” now available open access in @ceuropeanhistory.bsky.social! So excited to see the first result of a six-year collaboration with Ulrike Schaper in print. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Christopher Ewing @christopherewing.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
ok I love this for us
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Christopher Ewing @christopherewing.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Join us for a virtual new books roundtable on 9 Jan at 12pm EST! Featuring @jecfree.bsky.social, @michellelkahn.bsky.social, and Nadja Klopprogge in conversation with Maria Alexopoulou. Register here: purdue-edu.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Flyer for virtual new books roundtable with Jane Freeland, Michelle Lynn Kahn, and Nadja Klopprogge, moderated by Maria Alexopoulou. January 9th at 12pm EST.
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Christopher Ewing @christopherewing.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
Looking forward to co-hosting this virtual roundtable, organized with @npapadogian.bsky.social, on three fabulous books by @jecfree.bsky.social, @michellelkahn.bsky.social, and Nadja Klopprogge, and moderated by Maria Alexopoulou. Jan 9 @ 12pm EST. To register: purdue-edu.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Flyer for virtual new books roundtable at January 9th at 12pm EST. Depicts covers of Feminist Transformations and Domestic Violence in Divided Berlin by Jane Freeland, Foreign in Two Homelands: Racism, Return Migration and Turkish German History by Michelle Kahn, and Intimate Histories: African Americans and Germans since 1933 by Nadja Klopprogge
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Contingent Magazine @contingent-mag.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Our sixth annual list of books by historians working off the tenure track.
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2024 Contingent Book List
When you’re shopping for books this season, consider a contingent scholar.
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Christopher Ewing @christopherewing.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
The NAMES Project has been critical in not just expanding historical understanding, but creating a cross-generational memory culture of the crisis. I’m thrilled new generations of students and researchers will have access to this resource.
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Jake Desai-Newsome @jakenewsome.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
I’m stoked for this discussion with Avram Finkelstein on Tuesday evening. Dont miss your chance to chat with one of the designers of the SILENCE = DEATH poster! #pinktriangle #SilenceEqualsDeath #ACTUP #PinkTriangleLegacies
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Rachel Hope Cleves @rachelcleves.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Day 1/Chapter 10: Foodies It's pub day, and my countdown is complete. The last chapter of the book tells the story of how the "foodie" emerged in the 80s as a straight-washing of the gay gourmet. It closes the narrative arc of the rise & fall of the "good food/wicked sex" alimentary-sexual regime.
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Christopher Ewing @christopherewing.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
A truly fantastic book
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Jen Evans @jennifervevans.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
"I was born a human being and I want to leave here as a human being" - this is the name of a new permanent exhibition exploring East Germany's youth work camp Torgau. www.mdr.de/nachrichten/...
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Einziger geschlossenener Jugendwerkhof der DDR: Neue Ausstellung in Torgau | MDR.DE
Die neue Dauerausstellung in der Gedenkstätte Geschlossener Jugendwerkhof Torgau will persönliche Lebenswege erfahrbar machen. Das in der DDR erlebte Unrecht wirkt bei den ehemaligen Insassen bis heut...
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Jacobin Magazin @jacobinmagazin.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
CDU und SPD haben Berlin ein hartes Spardiktat aufgezwungen. In der Konsequenz bedeutet das: Die Mieten und der öffentliche Nahverkehr werden teurer, die Kulturlandschaft verarmt, bei der Kinder- und Jugendarbeit werden heftige Einschnitte gemacht. Dieses Sparprogramm richtet sich gegen die Menschen
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CDU und SPD kürzen die Hauptstadt kaputt
CDU und SPD haben Berlin ein hartes Spardiktat aufgezwungen. In der Konsequenz bedeutet das: Die Mieten und der öffentliche Nahverkehr werden teurer, die Kulturlandschaft verarmt, bei der Kinder- und Jugendarbeit werden heftige Einschnitte gemacht. Dieses Sparprogramm richtet sich gegen die Menschen der Stadt.
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Christopher Ewing @christopherewing.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
An important contribution - I’m looking forward to diving in and assigning chapters in class
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Christopher Ewing @christopherewing.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Florida’s natural, now available in Australia
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Amadeu Antonio Stiftung @amadeuantonio.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Heute vor 34 Jahren wurde unser Namensgeber Amadeu Antonio Opfer einer tödlichen Hetzjagd im brandenburgischen Eberswalde. Er war eines der ersten Todesopfer rechter Gewalt nach der Wiedervereinigung. Amadeu Antonio war aber auch ein Mensch mit Träumen und Hoffnungen. (1/9)
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Katie Sutton @katielmsutton.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Fab sounding queer history conference in Copenhagen next year nors.ku.dk/english/rese....
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Queer Pasts: What’s Queer in Queer History?
International conference.
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Christopher Ewing @christopherewing.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
At the start of the semester, I ask students why they’re in Global LGBTQ+ History. By far the most common answer is that they want to learn about *their* or their loved ones’ history. The importance of that cannot be understated. Solidarity with colleagues in FL. www.tallahassee.com/story/news/l...
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FSU board OKs removal of over 400 courses from general education offerings after review
“We’re living through an era of legislature-driven higher education reform,” FSU Provost Jim Clark said.
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Jonas Fossli Gjersø @jonasgjerso.bsky.social · 02/11/2024
We are looking for relatively short (1-2,000 words) opinion pieces on issues pertaining to imperial history, historiography, colonialism or the legacies of empire. Please do not hesitate to get in touch (jonas.f.gjerso@uis.no)!
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Samantha K. Knapton @lgmsam.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Posted on the other place by my publisher - '@LgmSam's notable study advances our understanding of ethnicity, nationality, and identity in periods of postwar occupation and displacement. This work is a significant addition to existing literature' Review bit.ly/48VZnQf Book bit.ly/3UYxzox
Book cover and snippet of Book review from h-net
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Christopher Ewing @christopherewing.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
In German and English! Including excerpted translations of sources
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rachel corbman @rachelcorbman.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
My program at Arizona State is hiring a presidential postdoc (which coverts to a tt job) in North American Indigenous Histories (apply.interfolio.com/158428). Jed’s program is hiring a presidential postdoc in U.S. Latina/o/x Studies (apply.interfolio.com/159508). Spread the word!
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Contemporary European History @conteurohistory.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Our starter pack now has a sequel! As ever, comment to be added to it! go.bsky.app/GX3v293
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Christopher Ewing @christopherewing.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Wrote a piece for Made by History! Very cathartic to think through right-wing masculinities in this election. Thank you to @kathrynbrownell.bsky.social and @juliocapojr.bsky.social for their careful and generous edits!
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