Dr. Christopher Ewing

Biography

Christopher Ewing is an Assistant Professor in the Department of History at Purdue University, specializing in Modern European History and LGBTQ History. His research focuses on transnational approaches to histories of race, sexuality, and queerness in contemporary Germany. He received his Ph.D. in 2018 from the City University of New York. Before joining Purdue, he was an Assistant Professor of History at Virginia Commonwealth University. His book, Color Desire: Queer Politics and Race in the Federal Republic of Germany 1970, published by Cornell in 2023, explores how the politics of race were crucial in the formation of queer movements in the Federal Republic of Germany following the gay liberation movement. Ewing examines how racism became entrenched in white queer scenes across the political spectrum. His current book project, Hate: A Criminal History of Germany’s Violent ‘90s, looks at how Germans made sense of right-wing violence after unification in 1990. His work has been published in various academic journals, including the Journal of History Sexuality and Sexuality & Culture. He is currently co-editing an interdisciplinary volume titled Reading Queer Media in the German-Speaking World: New Approaches to Print Sources, under contract with Palgrave Macmillan. Ewing is also accepting graduate students interested in the study of history, sexuality, and modern German/European history.

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