Julian Carter

Julian Carter is a queer theorist and historian, as well as chair of the Critical Studies Program. His undergraduate courses explore sex and race in twentieth and twenty-first century America, the arts of mortality around the globe from the Stone Age to the present, and creative interdisciplinary approaches to making queer history.

Julian's chief pedagogical goal is to get students hooked on the excitement and sense of power that come from learning how to take part in critically sophisticated conversation about personally and socially significant topics.

Julian's work on the history of sex education is widely taught, and his original research on the boundaries of modern lesbian identity earned a citation in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. His 2007 book, The Heart of Whiteness: Normal Sexuality and Race in America, 1890–1940 is available through CCA's library system.

He is currently writing a book about the margins of lesbian identity and also researching the role of history in gay liberation and lesbian feminist culture and politics in the 1970s and 1980s.

Before coming to CCA in 2006, Julian taught at Stanford and New York University (he likes CCA the most). He currently sits on the governing board of the national committee on lesbian and gay history and volunteers for the GLBT Historical Society of Northern California.

Major academic honors include the Ida B. Wells Prize of the American Historical Association's Committee on Women in the Historical Profession and an American Fellowship from the American Association of University Women.

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