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 book on the history of child marriage and sexuality in America and continues to write about queer history.
Syrett has published in American Studiess, Men and Masculinities, and in a collection of essays called Clio in the Classroom: A Guide for Teaching U.S. Women’s History. His book, The Company He Keeps: A History of White College Fraternities, was published by the University of North Carolina Press in March of 2009.. 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 Society for the History of Children and Youth, the Organization of American Historians, and the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic. He sits on the governing board of the Committee on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History, an affiliate of the American Historical Association.
This year Prof. Syrett will offer classes in women’s and gender history and on the history of immigration in the United States. He will also teach the second half of the U.S. history survey in the spring.
Syrett offers the following classes at UNC:
- HIST 101: Survey of American History from 1877 to the Present
- HIST 290: American Immigration
- HIST 323: Marriage and Family in the United States
- HIST 326: Sex and Sexuality in the United States
- HIST 347: United States Women’s History to 1877
- HIST 348: United States Women’s History since 1877
- HIST 430: American Queer History
- HIST 430/530: Slavery in America
- HIST 480: Senior Seminar: Gender, Race, and Crime
- HIST 530: Graduate Seminar on Gender in American History
Classes
During Fall 2009, he is teaching:
- HIST 290: American Immigration
- HIST 347: United States Women’s History to 1877
For printable copies of Prof. Syrett’s Fall 2009 syllabi (in Microsoft Word format) click on the following links:
