Profile: Timothy Stewart-Winter

Timothy Stewart-Winter (Ph.D., University of Chicago, 2009) specializes in political culture and social movements in the United States, and teaches courses on sexuality and gender, race, politics, and urban history. His first book, The Other Rainbow Coalition: Chicago and the Making of Urban Gay Politics, is under contract with the University of Pennsylvania Press, in the Politics and Culture in Modern America series. The book traces how gays and lesbians came to be a force in big-city politics since the 1950s, how the relationship between black and gay politics changed before, during, and after the AIDS crisis, and connects the rise of gay politics to broader shifts in political economy and the built environment. 

Stewart-Winter graduated with Highest Honors from Swarthmore College in 2001, and has also taught at Yale University. His writing has been published in Gender & History, the Journal of the History of Sexuality, and the Los Angeles Times, and has received the support of the American Council of Learned Societies, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the Jacob K. Javits and James C. Hormel fellowships. He serves on the Governing Board of the Committee on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History (CLGBTH), an affiliated society of the American Historical Association.