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Marc Stein

Jamie and Phyllis Pasker Professor of History
Phone: (415) 338-2982
Email: marcs@sfsu.edu
Location: Humanities Building Room 263
Office Hours:
Fri: 2:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.and by appointment

I am a historian of U.S. law, politics, and society, with research and teaching interests in constitutional law, social movements, gender, race and sexuality. My books and articles have focused on twentieth century urban gay and lesbian history; U.S. Supreme Court decisions on sex, marriage and reproduction; queer political activism; and sexual politics in the discipline of history. Over the last decade I have taught courses on U.S. constitutional law, gender and sexuality in North American history and the history of twentieth century political movements.

Education

  • Ph.D., History, University of Pennsylvania, 1994
  • B.A., History, Wesleyan University, 1985

Current and Previous Positions

  • Director, OutHistory, 2023-
  • Co-Editor, Queer Pasts (Alexander Street/ProQuest), 2020-
  • Coordinator, Rights and Wrongs: A Constitution Day Conference at SF State, 2015-
  • Academic Senator, San Francisco State Univ., 2021-23
  • Jamie and Phyllis Pasker Professor of History, History Dept., San Francisco State Univ., 2014-
  • Chair (2013-15) and Member (2015-16), Organization of American Historians Committee on the Status of LGBTQ Historians and Histories, 2013-16.
  • Member, LGBTQ Historians Task Force of the American Historical Association, 2009-15.
  • Assistant, Associate, and Full Professor, History Dept. and School of Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies, York Univ., 1998-2016 (leave of absence 2014-16)
  • Chair, Committee on Lesbian and Gay History, 2000-03.
  • Visiting Assistant Professor, History Dept., Colby College, 1996-98
  • Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Gender Studies, Bryn Mawr College, 1995-96
  • Lecturer and Chimicles Fellow, History Dept., Univ. of Pennsylvania, 1993-95

Honors and Awards:

  • Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Insight Grant, 2014-16
  • Faculty of Graduate Studies Teaching Award, York Univ., 2010
  • Audre Lorde Prize for Best Article, Committee on Lesbian and Gay History, 2006
  • Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Standard Research Grant, 2001-05
  • Gregory Sprague Prize for Best Chapter, Committee on Lesbian and Gay History, 1996
  • Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in Gender Studies, Bryn Mawr College, 1995-96
  • Ohio State Univ, Postdoctoral Fellowship (declined), 1995-96
  • Andrew W. Mellon Dissertation Fellowship, Univ. of Pennsylvania, 1993-94
  • Ken Dawson Annual Award for Lesbian/Gay History, Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies, City Univ. of New York, 1993
  • Phi Beta Kappa and Leonard Prize, Wesleyan Univ., 1985

Selected Publications:

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Books:

  • Queer Public History: Essays on Scholarly Activism (Oakland: Univ. of California Press, 2022).
  • The Stonewall Riots: A Documentary History (New York: NYU Press, 2019).
  • Rethinking the Gay and Lesbian Movement (New York: Routledge, 2012; 2nd ed. 2023).
  • Sexual Injustice: Supreme Court Decisions from Griswold to Roe (Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press, 2010). Choice Outstanding Academic Title.
  • City of Sisterly and Brotherly Loves: Lesbian and Gay Philadelphia, 1945-72 (Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 2000; 2nded. with new preface, Philadelphia: Temple Univ. Press, 2004).

 

Edited Works:

  • Guest Editor, “U.S. Homophile Internationalism,” Journal of Homosexuality 64.7 (Apr. 2017).
  • Editor-in-Chief, Encyclopedia of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History in America (3 volumes) (New York: Scribners, 2003). Library Journal “Best Reference,” 2004; Booklist “Editor’s Choice,” 2004; Reference and User Services Assoc. “Outstanding Reference Source,” 2005; New York Public Library “Best of Reference,” 2005.

Book Chapters:

  • “Heterosexual Inversions: Satire, Parody, and Comedy in the 1950s and 1960s,” Heterosexual Histories: Collected Essays about Sexuality, Norms, and U.S. History, ed. Rebecca Davis and Michele Mitchell (New York: NYU Press, 2021), 195-224.
  • “Law and Politics: ‘Crooked and Perverse’ Narratives of LGBT Progress,” Routledge History of Queer America, ed. Don Romesburg (New York: Routledge, 2018), 315-330.
  • “Race, Class, and the U.S. Supreme Court’s Doctrine of Heteronormative Supremacy,” in Connexions: Histories of Race and Sex in North America, ed. Jennifer Brier, Jim Downs, and Jennifer Morgan (Champaign: Univ. of Illinois Press, 2016), 59-81.
  • “Historical Landmarks and Landscapes of LGBTQ Law,” in LGBTQ America: A Theme Study of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer History, ed. Megan Springate (Washington, D.C.: National Park Service, 2016), 1-47. Reprinted in Communities and Place: A Thematic Approach to the Histories of LGBTQ Communities in the United States, ed. Katherine Crawford-Lackey and Megan E. Springate (New York: Berghahn, 2020), 104-149.
  • “Sexual Rights and Wrongs: Teaching the U.S. Supreme Court’s Greatest Gay and Lesbian Hits,” in Understanding and Teaching U.S. Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History, ed. Leila Rupp and Susan Freeman (Madison: Univ. Wisconsin Press, 2014), 238-53.
  • “Rizzo’s Raiders, Beaten Beats, and Coffeehouse Culture in 1950s Philadelphia,” in Modern American Queer History: Essays in Representation, Lived Experience, and Public Policy, ed. Allida M. Black (Philadelphia: Temple Univ. Press, 2001), 155-80.
  • “‘Birthplace of the Nation’: Imagining Lesbian and Gay Communities in Philadelphia, 1969-70,” in Creating a Place for Ourselves, ed. B. Beemyn (New York: Routledge, 1997), 253-88.

Peer Reviewed Articles:

  • “Students, Sodomy, and the State: LGBT Campus Struggles in the 1970s,” Law and Social Inquiry 48.2 (May 2023): 531–560 (published online Apr. 2022).
  • “Teaching and Researching the History of Sexual Politics at San Francisco State, 1969-1970,” California History 98.4 (Winter 2021): 2-29.
  • “Canada and Canadians in the U.S. Homophile Press,” Journal of Homosexuality 64.7 (Apr. 2017): 963-990.
  • “Introduction: U.S. Homophile Internationalism,” Journal of Homosexuality 64.7 (Apr. 2017): 843-849.
  • “The Future of LGBT Civil Rights History: New and Forthcoming Books in the Field,” Journal of Civil and Human Rights 1.2 (Fall/Winter 2015): 201-211.
  • “Canonizing Homophile Sexual Respectability: Archives, History, and Memory,” Radical History Review 120 (Fall 2014): 52-73.
  • “All the Immigrants Are Straight, All the Homosexuals Are Citizens, But Some of Us Are Queer Aliens: Genealogies of Legal Strategy in Boutilier v. INS,” Journal of American Ethnic History 29.4 (Summer 2010): 45-77.
  • “Crossing the Border to Memory: In Search of Clive Michael Boutilier (1933-2003),” torquere 6 (2004): 91-115 (published Nov. 2005).
  • Boutilier and the U.S. Supreme Court’s Sexual Revolution,” Law and History Review 23.3 (Fall 2005): 491-536 (awarded Audre Lorde Prize).
  • “Theoretical Politics, Local Communities: The Making of U.S. LGBT Historiography,” GLQ 11.4 (2005): 605-25.
  • “Crossing Borders: Memories, Dreams, Fantasies, and Nightmares of the History Job Market.” Left History 9.2 (Spring/Summer 2004): 119-39.
  • “Sex Politics in the City of Sisterly and Brotherly Loves,” Radical History Review 59 (Spring 1994): 60-92. Reprinted in Major Problems in the History of American Sexuality, ed. Kathy L. Peiss (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2001), 431-43.

Encyclopedia Entries:

  • “The Stonewall Riots,” in SAGE Encyclopedia of Trans Studies, ed. Abbie Goldberg and Genny Beemyn (Los Angeles: Sage, 2021), 803-806.
  • “Gay and Lesbian Communities,” in Oxford Encyclopedia of American Social History, ed. Lynn Dumenil (New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 2012), vol. 1, p. 432-437.
  • “Gay Men’s Cultures in Cities” and “Queer Space,” in Encyclopedia of American Urban History, ed. David Goldfield (Thousand Oaks: Sage, 2006), vol. 1, p. 297-299 and vol. 2, p. 633-35.
  • “African Americans,” “Class and Class Oppression,” “Coming Out and Outing,” “Gay Community News,” “Homophile Movement Demonstrations,” “Interracial and Interethnic Sex and Relationships,” “Janus Society,” “Clark Polak,” and “Police and Policing,” in Encyclopedia of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History in America, ed. Marc Stein (New York: Scribners, 2003), 1:10-16, 221-24, 252-55, 432-34, 2:56-58, 84-87, 93-95, 388-394.
  • Gay Community News,” in Gay Histories and Cultures: An Encyclopedia, ed. George E. Hagerty (New York: Garland, 2000), 369-70.
  • “Barbara Gittings,” in Lesbian Histories and Cultures: An Encyclopedia, ed. Bonnie Zimmerman (New York: Garland, 2000), 335.

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Other Publications:

Invited Academic Lectures and Presentations 

  • “Master Class: The History of Pride,” Rutgers University, Camden, June 2023.
  • “Out On Campus: How Bucks Students Made Gay Rights History,” Bucks County Community College, May 2023.
  • “Students, Sodomy, and the State: LGBT Campus Struggles in the 1970s,” Lafayette College, Mar. 2023; California State Univ.-Channel Islands, Oct. 2022; Univ. Toronto, Apr. 2018; Franklin and Marshall College, Oct. 2017; Virginia Commonwealth Univ., Oct. 2016.
  • “Queer Public History,” University of California, Santa Barbara, Mar. 2023; California State Univ.-East Bay, Oct. 2022.
  • “LGBT Direct Action Bibliography, Chronology, and Inventory, 1965-73,” University of California, Santa Barbara, Mar. 2023.
  • “What’s Happening to Tenure?” American Association for University Professors, Feb. 2023.
  • “Queer Transformations at San Francisco State, 1969-1972,” Labor Archives Research Center, San Francisco State Univ., Oct. 2022.
  • “Bucks Looks Back: Gay Rights History Made Here,” Bucks County Community College, May 2022.
  • “Historicizing Stonewall,” Univ. Edinburgh, Feb. 2022.
  • “California and the Stonewall Riots,” California State Univ.-Stanislau, Oct. 2019; Sonoma State Univ., Feb. 2019.
  • “Historicizing Stonewall: Riots, Resistance, and Revolution,” Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, New York City, June 2019.
  • Keynote: “Historicizing Stonewall: Riots, Resistance, and Revolution,” Stonewall at 50 and Beyond Conference, Univ. Paris Est Créteil, France, June 2019.
  • “Philadelphia Freedom: Gay Patriots, Protesters, and Profiteers at the U.S. Bicentennial,” Bryn Mawr College, Oct. 2017; San Francisco State Univ. LGBTQ Studies Series, April 2016.
  • “Historical Perspectives on U.S. LGBT Rights and Freedoms,” National Defense Univ. International Fellows Program, GLBT History Museum (San Francisco), Feb. 2017; Feb. 2016.
  • “Sex with Neighbors: Canada and Canadians in the ‘U.S.’ Homophile Press,” Simon Fraser Univ., Jan. 2015; Univ. Massachusetts at Amherst, Nov. 2013.
  • “Canonizing Homophile Sexual Respectability: Archives, History, and Memory,” Library Company of Philadelphia and Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Oct. 2014.
  • “Rethinking the Gay and Lesbian Movement: Historical Perspectives,” Mark Gordon Lecture, LGBT Center, Univ. Pennsylvania, Oct. 2014; History Dept., York Univ., Jan. 2013; Ohio Univ., Oct. 2012; Ohio State Univ., Oct. 2012.
  • “Autobiographical Reflections on Historical Studies,” Graduate Seminar Series, Graduate Program in Gender, Feminist, and Women’s Studies, York Univ., Oct. 2013.
  • “Exclusivity and Homogeneity in York’s Inclusivity and Diversity Survey,” Workshop on Queer and Trans Academics, York Univ. Faculty Assoc. Queer Caucus, Apr. 2013.
  • Endnote: “‘We Demand’: A Conference Snapshot,” “We Demand”: History/Sex/Activism in Canada Conference, Vancouver, Aug. 2011.
  • “The U.S. Supreme Court’s Sexual Revolution? Sex, Marriage, and Reproduction from Griswold to Roe,” Centre for the Study of the United States, Univ. Toronto, Jan. 2011; Research Matters, York Univ., Nov. 2010; Univ. Maine–Orono, Oct. 2010; Colby College, Oct. 2010; Graduate Program in Women’s Studies, York Univ., Feb. 2009; Sexualities Workshop, York Univ., Nov. 2005; Temple Univ., Oct. 2004; Univ. California, Santa Barbara, Feb. 2004; Univ. Maine-Orono, Feb. 2004; Duke Univ., Feb. 2002; American Bar Foundation, Oct. 2001; American History Faculty Seminar, York Univ., Oct. 2001; Case Western Reserve Univ., Oct. 2001; Queen’s Univ., Mar. 2001; Univ. Missouri-Columbia Law School, Apr. 2000; Franklin and Marshall College, Apr. 1999.
  • “LGBT History’s Successes and Failures,” Historian’s Craft, Graduate Program in History, York Univ., Mar. 2010.
  • Keynote: “Rethinking the Gay and Lesbian Movement,” St. Mary’s College Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Colloquium, St. Mary’s City, Maryland, Mar. 2010.
  • Plenary Speaker: “Inventing Rights and Wrongs: Rulings, Reception, and the U.S. Supreme Court’s Sexual Revolution,” Schlesinger Library Summer Seminar on Gender History–“Sequels to the 1960s,” Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, June 2008.
  • “The Cultural Turn,” Department of History Research Series, York Univ., Feb. 2008.
  • “Inventing Rights and Wrongs: Rulings, Reception, and the U.S. Supreme Court’s Sexual Revolution,” Rutgers Univ., Dec. 2005; Colby College, Mar. 2004.
  • “Sexual Freedom v. LGBT Civil Rights: Activism, Archives, and Academia,” LGBT Center, Univ. Pennsylvania, Oct. 2004.
  • “Communities of Desire: The Past, Present, and Future of U.S. Queer History,” Univ. Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Mar. 2002.
  • “Scholarship, Teaching, Activism, and Lived Experience,” Out at York Symposium, York Univ., Feb. 2002.
  • “Writing the Lesbian and Gay City,” Univ. Toronto, May 2001.
  • “The Queering of Philadelphia Lesbian and Gay History,” Swarthmore College, Mar. 2001.
  • “Philadelphia Gay Sex Radicals and the U.S. Supreme Court’s Sexual Revolution, 1965-1973,” Philadelphia Lesbian and Gay Academic Union, Univ. Pennsylvania, Dec. 2000.
  • “City of Sisterly and Brotherly Loves,” Univ. Missouri-Columbia, Apr. 2000; Univ. Toronto, Sept. 1999.
  • Keynote: “Crossing Borders: Memories, Dreams, Fantasies, and Nightmares of the History Job Market,” New Frontiers Conference, York Univ., Apr. 1999.
  • “From Independence Hall to the Black Panthers’ Constitutional Convention: Nationalisms in Gay, Lesbian, and Black Politics, 1969-1970,” Beloit College, Feb. 1999.
  • “Your Place or Mine?: Lesbian and Gay Geographies in Postwar Philadelphia History,” Harvard Univ., Nov. 1997; Florida International Univ./Univ. Miami/Wolfsonian Museum, Mar. 1997; Women’s Studies Colloquium, Colby College, Oct. 1996.
  • “‘Birthplace of the Nation’: Imagining Lesbian and Gay Communities in Philadelphia, 1969-70,” Wesleyan Univ., Apr. 1997; Mellon Seminar in the Humanities, Bryn Mawr College, Nov. 1995.
  • “Lesbian and Gay Politics in the City of Sisterly and Brotherly Loves, 1960-69,” Lafayette College, Apr. 1997.
  • “The City of Sisterly and Brotherly Loves,” Cincinnati Seminar on the City, Apr. 1996; Philadelphia Lesbian/Gay Academic Union, Dec. 1992.
  • “Lesbian and Gay Neighborhood Development in Postwar Philadelphia,” Univ. Pennsylvania Urban Studies Workshop, Dec. 1995.
  • “Birthplace of a Nation: Sex, Race, and Nationalism in Philadelphia After Stonewall, 1969-70,” Gay and Lesbian Studies Workshop, Univ. Chicago, Jan. 1995.