Timothy Stewart-Winter

Associate Professor and Graduate Director, Rutgers University

Timothy Stewart-Winter specializes in LGBTQ history and the politics of sexuality and gender in the modern United States. He is an associate professor of history at Rutgers University-Newark, where he also teaches in the American Studies and Women’s & Gender Studies programs. His first book, ExternalQueer Clout: Chicago and the Rise of Gay Politics (Penn, 2016; paperback, August 2017), was awarded the 2017 John Boswell Prize by the Committee on LGBT History. He is now working on a book about the scandal surrounding Walter Jenkins, a longtime aide to Lyndon B. Johnson who resigned from the White House staff in 1964 after being arrested on disorderly conduct charges. He co-directs the ExternalQueer Newark Oral History Project.

Stewart-Winter’s work has appeared in the Journal of American History, the Journal of Urban History, Gender & History, and the Journal of the History of Sexuality. He also writes regularly about LGBTQ politics and history for a wider audience, including op-eds in the ExternalNew York Times, the ExternalLos Angeles Times, and the ExternalStar-Ledger (N.J.), and commentaries in ExternalDissent and ExternalSlate. He has appeared on “ExternalAll Things Considered” (NPR), and was interviewed about Queer Clout on “ExternalChicago Tonight” (WTTW television) and “ExternalMorning Drive” (WBEZ radio).

Stewart-Winter received his Ph.D. in history from the University of Chicago and his B.A. in history from Swarthmore College. In 2017-2018, he was a fellow of the Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History at Harvard University.