Tag: Queer History


Summersell Center Hosts Queer History Reading Group

The Summersell Center recently hosted a Queer History Reading Group for graduate students in history. Organized by Margaret Montgomery, Isabella Garrison, and Dr. John Giggie, Summersell Director, the conversation centered on Charles Blow’s recent memoir, Fire Shut up in My Bones, in which the New York Times journalists talks about growing as a bisexual Black man in the Deep South. The goal for the group, as put by Isabella, is to “create new spaces for graduate students to look at […]

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Summersell Center Receives Grant to Develop Queer History Website

Dr. John Giggie and the Summersell Center were recently chosen to receive a 2019 Teaching Grant from The University of Alabama College of Arts & Sciences to develop Queer Alabama, the digital humanities website that came out of the course “Invisible Histories,” that was taught this spring. It will fund the work of student Isabella Garrison as she refines and expands the website this summer. The site showcases the research done by students documenting the queer community at The University […]

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