Timothy Stewart-Winter (Rutgers) to deliver next lunch talk!

We are excited to host Timothy Stewart-Winter on Wednesday March 21 for our next lunch talk seminar. Professor Stewart Winter will discuss his current book project. The accompanying paper is titled,”The Fall of Walter Jenkins: Sexuality and the Politics of Policing in the 1960s.”

Stewart-Winter is an associate professor of U.S. history at Rutgers University. His first book, Queer Clout: Chicago and the Rise of Gay Politics (Penn, 2016; paperback, August 2017), won the 2017 John Boswell Prize for the outstanding book in the field of LGBT history, awarded by the American Historical Association Committee on LGBT History. He is now working on the first book-length study of the scandal surrounding the 1964 arrest of White House aide Walter Jenkins on disorderly conduct charges. In 2017-2018, he is a visiting fellow at the Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History at Harvard University. He co-directs the Queer Newark Oral History Project.