Dr. John Howard is professor in and head of the Department of American Studies at King’s College London and the author of Men Like That: A Southern Queer History.
Dr Howard is interested in the historical production of human differences and their attendant inequalities. His work also assesses differences as productive mechanisms of affiliation, identity, coalition, and struggle. Informed by queer, feminist, materialist, critical race, and spatial theory, and his research and teaching engages primarily with the categories now known as sexuality, gender, class, race, and region.
His work has received awards and commendations from the American Sociological Association, American Studies Association, Arts and Humanities Research Council, British ADr. John Howard is professor in and head of the Department of American Studies at King’s College London and the author of Men Like That: A Southern Queer History.
Dr Howard is interested in the historical production of human differences and their attendant inequalities. His work also assesses differences as productive mechanisms of affiliation, identity, coalition, and struggle. Informed by queer, feminist, materialist, critical race, and spatial theory, and his research and teaching engages primarily with the categories now known as sexuality, gender, class, race, and region.
His work has received awards and commendations from the American Sociological Association, American Studies Association, Arts and Humanities Research Council, British Academy, Delfina Studio Trust, Fulbright Commission, Rockefeller Foundation, and King’s College London Students’ Union, among others. ...more