KEVIN MUMFORD
KEVIN J. MUMFORD
Kmumford@illinois.edu
Department of History
309 Gregory Hall
University of Illinois
Urbana, IL 61801
(217) 333-1155
Education
1993 Ph.D. History, Stanford University
1990 M.A. History, Stanford University
1986 A.B. History, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Academic Positions
2012 Professor of History, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
2011 Professor of History and African American Studies, University of Iowa
2006 Associate Professor of History and African American Studies, University of Iowa
2003 Assistant Professor of History, University of Iowa
2000 Assistant Professor of History, Towson University
Honors
2017-2020 Richard and Margaret Romano Professorial Scholar, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana--Champaign
2017 Winner, Bonnie and Vern Bullough Book Award, Foundation For the Scientific Study of Sexuality
Finalist, Randy Shilts Award in Gay Non-Fiction, The Publishing Triangle
Finalist, Best Book in LGBT Studies, Lamda Literary Awards
*All for Not Straight, Not White, (UNC Press, 2016)
2016 Stonewall Honor Book, American Library Association
*For Not Straight, Not White, (UNC Press, 2016)
2012 Binkley-Stephenson Award, Organizations of American Historians
*Best article in the Journal of American History, 2011
2012 Audre Lorde Prize, GLBTH Committee, Affiliate of the American Historical Association
*Outstanding article on LGBT history in the past two years
2011-12 Senior Fulbright Scholar, Erfurt Universitait, Erfurt, Germany
2008-09 Fellow, Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History, Harvard University
2007-10 Awardee, University of Iowa--Faculty Scholar Fellow
2005 Schomburg Scholar, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York Public Libraries, National Endowment for the Humanities
1999 Fellow (Non-Resident), W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for Afro-American Research, Harvard University
Publications: Books
2016 Not Straight, Not White: Black Gay Men from the March on Washington to the AIDS Crisis (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2016) ()
2007 Newark: A History of Race, Rights, and Riots in America, (New York University Press, 2007) ()
1997 Interzones: Black/White Sex Districts in Chicago and New York in the Early Twentieth Century, (Columbia University Press, 1997)
Publications: Articles and Textbooks
Teaching the Stonewall Riots: Bedford Document Collections, (Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2021), forthcoming
“Queering African American History: A Bibliography,”
“Black Gay Lives Matter: Mobilizing Sexual Identities in Chicago and London in the Era of Reagan and Thatcher Conservatives,” in Beyond the Politics of the Closet, ed. Jonathan Bell, (Philadelphia: Penn Press, 2020), 87-104
“Introduction to the Special Issue on LBGT Themes,” Journal of African American History, 104 (Spring 2019), 171-75
“The Lessons of Stonewall Fifty Years Later,” QED, (Summer 2019), 85-90
“Notches Student Interview with Kevin Mumford”
“Observing Difference: Toward A Pedagogy of Historical and Cultural Intersections,” in Understanding and Teaching U.S. Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History, ed. Leila Rupp and Susan K. Freeman (Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 2014), 92-110
“The Ferguson Crisis in Historical Perspective,” The American Historian, (November 2014), 20-22
“Untangling Black Pathology: The Moynihan Report and Homosexual Damage, 1965-1975” Journal of Policy History, 24 (January 2012), 52-73
“The Trouble With Gay Rights: Race and the Politics of Sexual Orientation in Philadelphia, 1969-1982” Journal of American History, 98 (June 2011), 49-72
“Teaching Radical History: Black Global Metropolis: Sexual History,” Radical History Review, 103 (Winter 2010), 175-86
“Harvesting the Crisis: The Newark Uprisings, The Kerner Commission, and Writings on Riots,” in African American Urban History Since World War II, ed. Kenneth L. Kusmer and Joe W. Trotter (University of Chicago Press, 2009), 203-218
“Joseph Beam,” in Encyclopedia of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender History, ed. Marc Stein (New York: Charles Scribners, 2003)
“Oscar De Priest,” in Encyclopedia of the Great Depression, ed. Robert S. McElvaine, (MacMillan Reference, 2003)
“Civil Rights,” in Encyclopedia of Ethnic Conflict in the Twentieth Century, ed. Joseph Rudolph (Westport, CT: Greenwood, 2002)
“Civil Rights,” in Encyclopedia of Ethnic Conflict in the Twentieth Century, ed. Joseph Rudolph (Westport, CT: Greenwood, 2002)
“Double V in New Jersey: African-American Civic Culture and Rising Consciousness Against Jim Crow, 1938-1966” New Jersey History, 119 (Fall/Winter 2001), 33-55
“After Hugh: Statutory Race Segregation in Colonial America, 1630-1725,” The American Journal of Legal History, 43 (July 1999), 280-305
"Homosex Changes: Race, Cultural Geography, and the Emergence of the Gay," American Quarterly, 48 (September 1996), 395-414; reprinted in Locating American Studies: Evolution of a Discipline, ed. Lucy Maddox, (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins, 1999), 385-407
"'Lost Manhood' Found: Male Sexual Impotence and Victorian Culture in the United States," Journal of the History of Sexuality, 3 (July 1992), 33-57; reprinted in American Sexual Politics: Gender, Sexuality, and Race Since the Civil War, ed. John C. Fout and Maura Tantillo (University of Chicago, 1993), and in A History of Gender in America: Essays, Documents, Articles, ed. Sylvia Hoffert (New York: Prentice Hall, 2003), 424-433
Publications: Book Reviews
Peter J. Levy, The Great Uprising: Race Riots in Urban America, (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2017), American Historical Review, 124 (December 2019): 1919
Deborah Gray White, Lost in America: American Identity from the Promisekeepers to the Million Mom March, (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2016), Journal of American History, 104 (June 2018): 209-10
Mark Krasovic, The Newark Frontier: Community Action in the Great Society, (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2016), American Historical Review, 123 (April 2016): 537-38
“Comment on David Roediger’s Seizing Freedom: Slave Emancipation and Liberty for All,” Ethnic and Racial Studies, 39 (January 2016): 347-351
Christina B. Hanhardt, Safe Space: Gay Neighborhood History and the Politics of Violence, (Duke University Press, 2014) American Historical Review, 120 (September 2015): 1520-21
Robert Curvin, Inside Newark: Decline, Rebellion, and the Search for Transformation, (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2014) Journal of American History, 102 (September 2015): 620
Clarence Lang, Grassroots at the Gateway: Class Politics and Black Freedom Struggle in St. Louis, 1936-1975, (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2009) in Labor: Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas, 7 (2010): 92
Josh Sides, Erotic City: Sexual Revolution and the Making of Modern San Francisco, (New York: Oxford, 2009), Pacific Historical Review, 80 (February 2011): 147-9
William Evans McKee, Open Wound: The Long View of Race In America, (University of Illinois Press, 2008), American Historical Review, 115 (April 2010): 530-31
Mary S. Sacks, Before Harlem: The Black Experience in New York City Before World War I, Journal of American History, 95 (June 2008): 845-46
Ken Burns, Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson, in Public Historian, 28 (Spring 2006): 118-120
“Of Real Estate and Dreams,” Reviews in American History, 43 (June 2006): 194-200
“The Miscegenation Analogy Revisited: Same-Sex Marriage as a Civil Rights Story,” American Quarterly, 57 (June 2005): 523-531
Nikhil Pal Singh, Black Is A Country: Race and the Unfinished Struggle for Democracy, and Melissa Victoria Harris-Lacewell, Babershops, Bibles, and Bet: Everyday Talk and Black Political Thought in Journal of Politics, 67 (August 2005): 1323-1335
Kevin Boyle, Arc of Justice: A Sage of Race, Murder, and Civil Rights in the Jazz Age, Journal of Southern History, 71 (Nov. 2005): 932-934
“The Race That Changed New York: A Review Essay,” Journal of Urban History, 31 (2005): 269-277
Martha Biondi, To Stand and Fight: The Struggle For Civil Rights in Postwar New York City, Journal of American History, 91 (June 2004): 316-317
Jennifer Lee, Civility in the City: Blacks, Jews, and Koreans in Urban America, Urban Studies, (December 2003): 13
David Blight, Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory, Maryland Historical Magazine, (spring 2001): 113-114
Kathleen Odell Korgen, From Black to Biracial: Transforming Racial Identity Among African-Americans, (Westport, CT: 1998), Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 25( no. 2): 357-358
"Men's Texts, and Race: A Review Essay," Men and Masculinities, 2 (October 1999): 228-239
Juan Williams, Thurgood Marshall: American Revolutionary, Afro-Americans in New York Life and History, 23 (July 1999): 77-8
Ross Posnock, Color and Culture: Black Writers and the Making of the Modern Intellectual in The Journal of American History, 86 (December 1999): 1357-58
Invited Lectures, Conferences, Seminars
Panelist, “Stonewall at 50,” Annual Meetings of the Organization of American Historians, April, New York,
Chair, “New Perspectives on LGBT Histories,” Annual Meetings of the American Historical Association, January, Chicago
Invited Paper. “Black Gay Lives Mattered: Mobilizing Sexual Identities in the Age of Reagan And Thatcher,” Seminar in Sexuality Studies, Newberry Library, Chicago
Invited Moderator, “Gender and African American History,” Center African American Urban Studies, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh
Invited Lecture. “Not Straight, Not White,” Department of Sociology, CUNY Graduate Center, New York
“Incorporating LGBT History into the United States Survey,” Meeting of the American Historical Association, January
Invited Seminar. “Black Gay Lives Matter,” Department of African American Studies, Princeton University, December
Radio Interview. “Not Straight, Not White: Black Gay Men From the March on Washington to the AIDS Crisis,” WILL-FM, May
Invited Lecture. “Not Straight, Not White: Black Gay Men From the March on Washington to the AIDS Crisis,” Urbana Adult Education Center, May
Invited Lecture. “Not Straight, Not White: Black Gay Men From the March on Washington to the AIDS Crisis,” Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Resource Center, University of Illinois at Urbana—Champaign, April
Presenter. “Not Straight, Not White: Black Gay Men From the March on Washington to the AIDS Crisis,” Annual Meetings of the American Studies Association, Toronto, October, 2014
Invited Lecture. “Not Straight, Not White: Intersections of Racism and Homophobia,” Seminar on “The Resilience of White Supremacy and Privilege,” University of Tuebingen, Germany, June, 2014
Presenter. “The Last Crises of James Tinney,” Annual Meetings of the Organization of American Historians, St. Louis, April, 2014
Invited Lecture. “Neither Straight Nor White: Remaking Black Gay History from the March on Washington to the AIDS Crisis,” Case Western University, April, 2014
Invited Lecture. “The John D’Emilio Retirement Conference,” University of Illinois at Chicago, October 2014
Presenter. “State of the Field: Historians Working on the Margins: The Perils and Pleasures of Doing Interdisciplinary Work,” Annual Meetings of the Organization of American Historians, Atlanta, 2014
Presenter. “Teaching LGBTQ Histories: Roundtable on Old Lessons and New Agendas” Annual Meetings of the Organization of American Historians, Atlanta, 2014
Presenter. “Betwixt Baldwin, Cleaver, and Black Gay History,” Whose Beloved Community?: Black Civil and LGBT Rights, Emory University, March, 2014
Chair. “The Way Queer Travels: Capitalism, Tourism, and Transnational Migrations,” Annual Meetings of the American Studies Association, Washington, D.C., November, 2013
Plenary Lecture. “Beyond the Closet: Reinventing African-American History, 1963-1988” 15th Annual Conference on African American History, University Memphis, October, 2013
Commentator. “Black/Gay Histories in the Post-‘Movement’ Era,” Annual Meetings of the Organization of American Historians, San Francisco, April, 2013
Invited Commentator. Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University, November, 2013
Invited Lecture. “Perverted Subversive: Notes on James Baldwin, Lorraine Hansberry, and Bayard Rustin,” A New Insurgency: Port Huron in Its Time and Ours, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, October, 2012
Invited Lecture. “Between the Edge and Margin: Queer Representations and Black Respectability Before Stonewall,” The John F. Kennedy Institute, Freie Universitait Berlin, December, 2011
Invited Lecture. “Between the Edge and Margin: Queer Representations and Black Respectability Before Stonewall,” University of Amsterdam, November, 2011
Invited Lecture. “Between the Edge and Margin: Queer Representations and Black Respectability Before Stonewall,” Erfurt Unviversitait, October, 2011
Invited Lecture. “Metropolitan Civil Rights Colloquium,” University of Michigan, November, 2010
Invited Lecture. “Moving Bodies at Historic Intersections,” Warbur-Haus, Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany, November, 2010
Invited Lecture. Distinguished Lecturer, Organization of American Historians, “Untangling Pathology: Black Gay History Before Stonewall,” Gustavus Adolphus College, October, 2010
Moderator. “Rethinking Social Welfare,” Organization of American Historians Annual Meetings, April, 2010
Invited Lecture. Distinguished Lecturer, Organization of American Historians, “African American Gay History and the 1960s,” DePaul University, February, 2010
Conference Paper. “Rethinking The Queer 1970s: A Roundtable on Multiracial, Multi-issue, Transnational, Politics,” American Historical Association, January, 2010
Commentator. “Urban Paternalism: Race, Redevelopment, and Criminal Justice in Postwar Urban America,” American Historical Association Annual Meetings, January, 2010
Conference Paper. “Post-Moynihan Anxiety and the Epistemology of the Closet,” Sex Across the Color Lines, CESA, University of Iowa, November, 2009
Conference Paper. “Civil Rights, Sexual Politics: Black, Queer, Feminist Connections and Conflicts,” Organization of American Historians, Seattle, March, 2009
Panel Chair. “James Baldwin: In His Time/In Our Time,” Conference on James Baldwin, Suffolk University, March, 2009
Commentator. “Maneuvering Race, Labor, and Place in America’s Cities: Tactical Survival in an Urban Context,” American Studies Association, Albuquerque, NM, October, 2008
Plenary Lecture. “Response to the Urban Crisis,” School of Social Studies, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, March, 2008
Plenary Lecture. “Giovanni’s Brother: Joseph Beam and the AIDS Crisis,” National Library of Medicine, Washington, D.C., June, 2008
Public Lecture. “Newark: A History of Race, Rights, and Riots,” Ramapo College, Ramapo, NJ, November, 2007
Commentator. “Spaces of Citizenship,” American Studies Association Annual Meetings, Philadelphia, October, 2007
Graduate Student Advising
Benjamin Wallis, Ph.D., History, University of Illinois***
Michael Steffen, iSchool, M.A., University of Illinois***
Eric Denby, M.A., ABD, History, University of Illinois***
Nathan Tye, Ph.D., History, University of Illinois
Brian Campbell, M.A., ABD., History, University of Illinois
Yuki Takauchi, M.A., ABD, History, University of Illinois
Michael Staudemaier, History, Ph.D. University of Illinois
Ian Toller-Clark, M.A, ABD, University of Illinois
Matine Spence, M.A., History, University of Iowa, 2010***
Jake Hall, ABD, History, University of Iowa, 2010
Susan Stanfield, Ph.D., History, University of Iowa, 2010
Heather Cooper, Ph.D., History, University of Iowa, 2010
Nathan B. Titman, American Studies, Ph.D. University of Iowa, 2010
Christy Clark, Ph.D. History, University of Iowa, 2007
***Indicates Primary Advisor
Professional and University Service
Teaching Observation Committee, Department of History, UIUC, 2019
Advisor, National Park Service, Historical Parks and Monuments, Committee on the Stonewall Monument, 2019
Swain Prize Committee for Outstanding Graduate Student Paper, Department of History, UIUC, 2019
Senior Thesis Prize for Outstanding Undergraduate Thesis, Department of History, UICU, 2019
Recruiting for Diversity Committee, Department of History, UIUC, 2018
Distinguished Lecturer, Organization of American Historians, 2018
Distinguished Speakers Bureau, American Studies Association, 2018
Editorial Board, Journal of African American History, 2018
John D’Emilio Dissertation Prize, Organization of American Historians
Chair, Gabriel Dissertation Prize, American Studies Association, 2018
Director of Graduate Studies, Department of History, UIUC, 2018
Distinguished Lecturer, Organization of American Historians, 2018
Distinguished Speakers Bureau, American Studies Association, 2018
LAS Committee on Race and Ethnicity, UIUC, 2018
Advisory Committee, Gerber/Hart Library and Archives, Chicago, 2012
Director of Graduate Studies, UIUC, 2014
Advisory Committee to the Chancellor and Provost, UIUC, 2014
Campus Committee on Admissions, UIUC, 2014
Committee on Race and Ethnicity, UIUC, 2014
Executive Committee, Department of History, UIUC, 2014
Distinguished Lecturer, Organization of American Historians
Executive Committee, Department of History, UIUC, 2013
Recruiting for Diversity Committee, Department of History, UIUC, 2013
Chair, Audre Lorde Prize Committee, CLGBTH, Affiliate of American Historical Association, 2013
Chair, Greg Sprague Prize Committee, CLGBTH, Affiliate of American Historical Association, 2013
Distinguished Lecturer, Organization of American Historians, 2013
Chair, Lawrence Levine Book Prize Committee, Organization of American Historians, 2013
Search Committee, African American History to 1865, Department of History, UIUC, 2012
Diversity Initiative and Certificate Committee, University of Iowa, 2011
Graduate Admissions Committee, University of Iowa, 2011
Organization of American Historians Distinguished Lecturer Program, 2008
Conflict of Interest in Employment Committee, University of Iowa, 2008
Advisor, McNair Fellows Summer Program, 2008
Graduate Committee, Program in African American Studies, University of Iowa, 2008
Director of Undergraduate Studies, Department of History, University of Iowa, 2008
Academic Coordinator, Sexuality Studies Program, University of Iowa, 2006
Board Member, Center for the Study of Ethnicity and the Arts, University of Iowa, 2006
Graduate Admissions, Department of History, University of Iowa, 2005
Co-Chair, Diversity Initiative Committee, Department of History, University of Iowa, 2004
Faculty Secretary, Department of History, University of Iowa, 2003
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