2026 OutHistory Fellowships

            OutHistory is pleased to announce the winners of our 2026 fellowship competition. The OutHistory Fellowship Program is designed to support the presentation of high-quality LGBTQ+ historical exhibits on the OutHistory website (https://outhistory.org/). In 2026, OutHistory is awarding six US$1800 fellowships for projects on under-represented topics in North American LGBTQ history. The 2026 OutHistory Fellowship Awards Committee included Julio Capó

(Florida International University and OutHistory Board Member), Sage Milo (OutHistory Board Chair and Bookshelf Editor), and Marc Stein (San Francisco State University and OutHistory Executive Director). The 2027 fellowship competition will be announced in Fall 2026. For more information, contact OutHistory director Marc Stein at outhistory@gmail.com.

            The 2026 Fellows are:

Annie Anderson, Ph.D. candidate in the Department of American Studies at Rutgers University, Newark, NJ, USA, for “Queer Quaker City: Gender and Sexuality on Trial in Progressive-Era Philadelphia.”

Gracie Anderson, Ph.D. candidate in the Department of History at Columbia University, NY, USA, for “‘What’s a Gender Center?’ Transgender Support Groups and Survival Services in the 1970s and 1980s.”

JD Davids, M.A. candidate in the Biography and Memoir Program at the City University of New York Graduate Center, NY, USA, for “‘No Matter Who Is President’: Queer Women, Direct Action, and the Making of the First Dyke March.”

Cathleen Rhodes, master lecturer in the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies at Old Dominion University, VA, USA, for “Where the Women Were: The Legacy of a Southern Military Town’s Thriving Lesbian Bar Scene.”

Michael Schreiber, curator of the Bernard Perlin Archives and independent historian, Chicago, IL, USA, for “Secret Skies: The Queer Airmen of Tuskegee.”

Jesse Waggoner, assistant professor in the Gender and Women’s Studies Department and the English Department at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA, for “‘I’m Here, I’m Queer, and My Joint Pain Is Moderate to Severe’: Flashpoints in Queer Disabled History.”

OutHistory Public History Internships and Student Projects 

            OutHistory, the LGBTQ website founded by Jonathan Ned Katz, is interested in partnering with college and university faculty, especially those affiliated with public history and LGBTQ studies programs or classes, to support student internships and student projects. We envision (1) working with faculty and students to design, produce, and publish high-quality LGBTQ public history exhibits for OutHistory, and (2) working with faculty and students to maintain, upgrade, and improve the accessibility of existing OutHistory website features and exhibits. These can be individual student projects or collaborative class projects. While we do not have funding for paid internships, we anticipate that some faculty will be able to provide student interns with course credits, credit for class assignments, and financial stipends. For more information, contact OutHistory director Marc Stein at outhistory@gmail.com.

2025 OutHistory Fellowships

            OutHistory is pleased to announce the winners of our 2025 fellowship competition. The OutHistory Fellowship Program is designed to support the presentation of high-quality LGBTQ+ historical exhibits on the OutHistory website (https://outhistory.org/). In 2025, OutHistory is awarding six US$1600 fellowships for projects on under-represented topics in North American LGBTQ history. The 2025 OutHistory Fellowship Awards Committee included Juan Carlos Mezo González (York University), Anne Valk (City University of New York Graduate Center), and Marc Stein (San Francisco State University). The 2026 fellowship competition will be announced in Fall 2025. For more information, contact OutHistory director Marc Stein at outhistory@gmail.com.

            The 2025 Fellows are:

Elizabeth A. Allen, independent historian, Colchester, VT, USA, for “The Four Social Transitions of Rollin Kedzie Morgan (1881-1966)”

Laura Brightwell, Research Associate, Centre for Feminist Research, York University, Toronto, ON, Canada, for “Gendertroublemaker: The Work and Legacy of Canadian Artist Mirha-Soleil Ross”

Sam Brooks, Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Women's, Gender, & Sexuality Studies, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, USA, for “Transmasculine Erasure: Reframing LGBTQ+ History and Anti-Violence Activism”

Jacqueline Cho, M.A. candidate in the Department of History, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, for “Queer, Asian, Everywhere: An Overview of the Transnational Activism of the Gay Asians of Toronto”

Annabelle Heckler, M.A. candidate, City University of New York Graduate Center, New York, NY, USA, for “Red Scare/Lavender Song: Moranda Smith and Civil Rights Unionism, 1943-1950”

Hannah Leffingwell, Associate Faculty, Brooklyn Institute for Social Research, Brooklyn, NY, USA, for “The Lesbian Switchboard of New York City”

2024 OutHistory Fellowships

            OutHistory is pleased to announce the winners of our 2024 fellowship competition. The OutHistory Fellowship Program is designed to support the presentation of high-quality LGBTQ+ historical exhibits on the OutHistory website (https://outhistory.org/). In 2024, OutHistory is awarding six US$1500 fellowships for projects on under-represented topics in North American LGBTQ history. The 2024 OutHistory Fellowship Awards Committee included Emily Hobson (University of Nevada, Reno), La Shonda Mims (University of Birmingham), and Marc Stein (San Francisco State University). The 2025 fellowship competition will be announced in Fall 2024. For more information, contact OutHistory director Marc Stein at outhistory@gmail.com.

            The 2024 Fellows are:

Brian T. Blackmore, Director of Quaker Engagement at the American Friends Service Committee, Philadelphia, PA, USA, for “Quaker Action for Gay Rights: The Early Quaker Push for Gay Liberation, 1946-1973”

Tyler Carson, Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Women's, Gender, & Sexuality Studies, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, USA, for “Queer Conflicts about Age of Consent Laws, 1978-1994”

Corey D. Clawson, Ph.D. candidate in the American Studies Program, Rutgers University, Newark, NJ, USA, for “Writing Utopia: Imagining Just New Worlds Through Queer Ethnoracial Literary Anthologies”

Ryan Conrad, Adjunct Research Faculty, Carleton University, Ottawa, ON, Canada, for “Saint Danny: Toronto’s Patron Saint of Hustlers and Rent Boys”

Bob Lederer: Co-producer, Out-FM on WBAI/Pacifica Radio, New York City, NY, USA, for “The Black Panther Party, Queers, and the Gay Liberation Movement”

David K. Seitz, Associate Professor, Department of Humanities, Social Science, and the Arts, Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA, USA, for “‘Enough is Enough’: The Politics, Passion, and Poetry of Pei-Hsien Lim (1953-1992)”