Committee on Degrees in History and Literature at Harvard

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• NAME: Ian Lekus (Starting in History and Literature in September 2008)
• FIELD IN HISTORY AND LITERATURE: America
• Ph.D. Duke University (History), 2003
• AREAS OF INTEREST:
  General
  • U.S., Latin American, and global history: post-1870 emphasis, post-1945 specialty
  • LGBTQ history/sexuality & gender studies/history of masculinity
  • History of race and class
  • Social movements and community organizing
  • Transnational politics and culture
  • Peace and conflict studies
  • Political and popular culture
  Topics of Particular Interest:
  • Cold War and post-Cold War history
  • Civil rights, feminist, LGBT, conservative, environmental, and other U.S. social movements
  • Militarization and everyday life
  • Rise of the national security state
  • U.S.-Latin American relations; U.S. relations with the Global South more generally
  • Human rights
  • Culture wars
  • HIV/AIDS pandemic
  • Oral history
  • Sports and society
• DISSERTATION TOPIC OR TITLE: Queer and Present Dangers: Masculinity, Sexual Revolutions, and the New Left (under advance contract from UNC Press)
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• Barker Center 122, Cambridge, MA 02138
• Phone: (617) 495-4029 | Fax: (617) 496-5605 | Email: histlit@fas.harvard.edu

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