Nicholas Syrett |
Nicholas Syrett earned his A.B. in Women’s and Gender Studies from Columbia University and his M.A. and Ph.D. from the Program in American Culture at the University of Michigan. He is interested in the history of women, gender, and sexuality in the United States during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. His research and writing have primarily focused upon the construction of masculinity and sexuality in white college fraternities and on histories of queer sexuality. He is beginning to research a project on the history of child marriage and sexuality in America and continues to write about queer history.
Prof. Syrett has published in American Studies and has articles forthcoming in The Journal of the Early Republic and in a collection of essays called Clio in the Classroom: A Guide for Teaching U.S. Women’s History (Oxford University Press). His book, The Company He Keeps: A History of White College Fraternities, will be published in early 2009 by the University of North Carolina Press. Syrett regularly gives papers at the annual meeting of the American Studies Association, and has also presented at the Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, and meetings of the American Historical Association, the National Women’s Studies Association, the Organization of American Historians, and the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic.
This year Prof. Syrett will offer classes in the history of sexuality, the history of slavery in America, the history of marriage and family, and gender, race, and crime (a senior seminar). He will also teach the second half of the U.S. history survey. He has previously taught classes in Women’s Studies, queer history, U.S. women’s history, and on historical representations of race, gender, and sexuality.
Classes
During Fall 2008, he is teaching:
- HIST 101: American History from 1877 to the Present
- HIST 326: Sex and Sexuality in America
- HIST 480: Gender, Race, and Crime
For printable copies of Prof. Syrett’s Fall 2008 syllabi (in Microsoft Word format) click on the following links:
