Assistant Professor of American Studies and LGBT Studies
2107B Holzapfel Hall
301.405.1360
hanhardt@umd.edu
Christina B. Hanhardt is an Assistant Professor in the Department, a core faculty member of the LGBT Studies Program, and an affiliate of the Department of Women’s Studies and the Consortium on Race, Gender and Ethnicity. Her research and teaching interests include LGBT and queer studies; critical race theory; urban studies; social movements; the politics of crime and punishment; cultural geography; film, video, and television studies; and interdisciplinary research methods. She is currently working on a book manuscript about the historical and contemporary relationship between LGBT activism against violence and the race- and class-stratified city, entitled Safe Space: The Sexual and City Politics of Violence, 1965-2005. More broadly, it examines the transformation of LGBT politics alongside the popular uptake of neoliberal ideologies since the 1970s in U.S. cities. A piece of this research was published in Radical History Review (Winter 2008). Her work has been supported and recognized by the Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry at Emory University; the General Research Board and the Consortium on Race, Gender, and Ethnicity, both at the University of Maryland; the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies at the City University of New York Graduate Center; the Phil Zwickler Memorial Research Grant at the Human Sexuality Collection of Kroch Library, and the Future of Minority Studies Research Project, both at Cornell University; the Sexuality Research Fellowship Program of the Social Science Research Council with funds provided by the Ford Foundation; and the Henry M. MacCracken Fellowship and Dean’s Dissertation Fellowship, both at New York University; among other sources.
Degrees:
Ph.D. Program in American Studies (New York University, 2007)
M.A. Program in American Studies (New York University, 2002)
M.A. Inter-Arts Program (San Francisco State University, 1998)
A.B. Department of Modern Culture and Media (Brown University, 1994)
Courses Taught:
Crime and Punishment (undergraduate)
LGBTQ Politics and Social Movements (undergraduate)
Race, Sexuality, and the Transnational (undergraduate)
Sex and the City (undergraduate)
Race, Sexuality, and the Public Sphere (graduate)
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