Assistant Professor of American Studies and LGBT Studies
2107B Holzapfel Hall
301.405.1360
hanhardt@umd.edu
Christina B. Hanhardt is an Assistant Professor in the Department of American Studies and a core faculty member of the LGBT Studies Program. Her research and teaching interests include LGBT and queer studies; critical race theory; urban studies; social movements; the politics of crime and punishment; cultural geography; film, video, and television studies; and interdisciplinary research methods. She has presented research on topics such as the function of identity and culture in gentrification; the marketing of the city; race, gender, and sexuality in urban policy; LGBT activism against violence; "risk" and international human rights advocacy; and the representation of the urban and rural in queer film and video. Her article “Butterflies, Whistles, and Fists: Gay Safe Streets Patrols and the ‘New Gay Ghetto’ 1976-1981” was published in the Winter 2008 (100) issue of Radical History Review on “homonormativity.” She is also working on a book manuscript about the concept of “safe space” in LGBT publics, with a focus on the historical and contemporary relationship between activism against violence and the race- and class- stratified city. More broadly, it examines the transformation of LGBT politics alongside the popular uptake of neoliberal ideologies since the 1970s. Her future research plans include looking at the dynamics between "self-help" and "self-determination" in a variety of sexual minority social collectives.
Her research has been supported by the Sexuality Research Fellowship Program of the Social Science Research Council with funds provided by the Ford Foundation; the Phil Zwickler Memorial Research Grant at the Human Sexuality Collection of Kroch Library, Cornell University; the Five College Women’s Studies Research Center at Mount Holyoke College; and the Henry M. MacCracken Fellowship at New York University, among other sources.
Degrees:
Ph.D. Program in American Studies (New York University, 2007)
M.A. Program in American Studies (New York University, 2002)
M.A. Inter-Arts Program (San Francisco State University, 1998)
A.B. Department of Modern Culture and Media (Brown University, 1994)
Courses Taught:
Crime and Punishment (undergraduate)
Race, Sexuality, and the Transnational (undergraduate)
Sex and the City (undergraduate)
Race, Sexuality, and the Public Sphere (graduate)
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