George Chauncey '77 '89 PHD
Professor of History
American Studies Department Chair
Co-Director, Yale Research Initiative on the History of Sexualities
Note: we are short on time, so we have cribbed biographies of each of these professors from a few sources; links are below.
Professor Chauncey received his doctorate in history from Yale in 1989 and then taught for fifteen years at the University of Chicago, as well as for shorter stints at Rutgers, New York University, and the Ecole Normale Superieure in Paris. In 2012 he was awarded the Sidonie Miskimin Clauss Prize for Teaching Excellence in the Humanities. Professor Chauncey is best known for his book Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940 which won the Curti Prize for the best book in social history and Turner Prize for the best first book in any field of history, as well as the Los Angeles Times Book Prize.
Since 1993, George Chauncey has participated as a historian in approximately twenty gay rights cases, including Lawrence v. Texas (2003), for which he organized and was lead author of the Historians' Amicus Brief.