Laurie Marhoefer
Associate professor, Department of History
Gender and sexuality, Race, equity and identity, U.S. history, World history
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Expertise: Gender, sexuality and LGBT/queer politics in the 20th century United States and Europe, and German electoral politics in the 1920s
Laurie Marhoefer is a historian of queer and trans politics. Their 2015 book on fascism and the politics of sex, “,” reexamines the gay and trans rights movements of the 1920s, which were聽the world’s first. Marhoefer also writes for the press on topics such as , and .
Marhoefer co-teaches a class on the global history of AIDS. In addition to a primary appointment in the history department, Marhoefer is also affiliated聽with the and the .