Participant Info
- First Name
- Caroline
- Last Name
- Radesky
- Country
- United States
- State
- IA Iowa
- caroline-radesky@uiowa.edu
- Affiliation
- University of Iowa
- Website URL
- https://clas.uiowa.edu/history/people/caroline-radesky
- Keywords
- U.S. history (19th and 20th century), queer history, history of sexuality, gender history, disability history, queer studies, women's and gender studies, critical race studies
- Availability
- Media Contact
- Additional Contact Information
- PhD
- PhD
Personal Info
- Photo
- About Me
Caroline Radesky is a historian of sexuality, gender, and race. She earned her PhD in history from the University of Iowa in 2019. Her work examines same-sex desiring individuals’ uses of history to construct transnational and transhistorical sexual subjectivities in late nineteenth and early twentieth-century U.S. This research was supported by the Smith College, Cornell University’s Phil Zwickler Charitable and Memorial Foundation, The Kinsey Institute, the University of Iowa, the Mellon Foundation, and the AAUW.
In 2020, her dissertation “Feeling Historical: Same-Sex Desire and the Creation of Historical Imaginaries, 1890-1920” won the Organization of American Historians’ John D’Emilio LGBTQ History Dissertation Award.
She is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of History and the Department of Gender, Women’s, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Iowa.
- Recent Publications
- Media Coverage
- Social Media
- @radeskers
- Country Focus
- United States
- Expertise by Geography
- North America, United States
- Expertise by Chronology
- 19th century, 20th century
- Expertise by Topic
- Disability, Family, Gender, Medicine, Race, Sexuality, Sexual Violence, Women, World War I
