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Steven is a Canadian social historian, specializing in the history of sexuality. His research, scholarly publications, and contributions to public and community-based history are animated by critical questions concerning the histories and politics of gender and sexuality. He also publishes in the areas of archival theory and Foucault studies. Steven鈥檚 teaching focuses on the pedagogical possibilities of "a history of the present." He is the founder and ongoing co-chair of the, an affiliate of the Canadian Historical Association, and book review editor of the . Steven has been active in the LGBTQ movement for many years and writes frequently on politics, culture, and history for the mainstream and queer community press.
Selected Publications
Articles and Book Chapters
- "Meet Me in Pervert Park: Epistemology, Positionality, and Praxis in the Queer History of Policing and the Law," Law and History Review 40 (November 2022).
- "Queer Parrhesiast," in "Devotion: Today's Future Becomes Tomorrow's Archive," PUBLIC: Art/Culture/Ideas 65 (Summer 2022).
- The Abusable Past, digital platform of the Radical History Review (September 2019).
- 鈥淔辞耻肠补耻濒迟,鈥 The Global Encyclopedia of LGBTQ History, ed. Howard Chiang (New York: Charles Scribner鈥檚 Sons, 2019).
- 鈥溾楢 New Way of Lovin鈥: Queer Toronto Gets Schooled by Jackie Shane,鈥 鈥淚ntroduction,鈥 and 鈥淪ix Nights in the Albert Lane, 1917鈥 in Any Other Way: How Toronto Got Queer, ed. Stephanie Chambers et al. (Toronto: Coach House Books, 2017).
- C4E Journal: Perspectives on Ethics (November 2017), the e-journal of the Centre for Ethics at the University of Toronto, and co-published by .
- 鈥溾楾he Party with God鈥: Michel Foucault, the Gay Left, and the Work of Theory,鈥 Cultural History 5, 2 (2016).
- 鈥淧辞濒颈肠别/础谤肠丑颈惫别蝉,鈥 Archivaria 68 (Fall 2009). Reprinted in Feminist and Queer Information Studies Reader, ed. Patrick Keilty and Rebecca Dean (Sacramento: Litwin Books, 2013).
- 鈥溾榃ithout Working?鈥: Capitalism, Urban Culture, and Gay History,鈥 special issue on 鈥淣ew Directions in Urban and Labor History,鈥 ed. Joe William Trotter, Jr. and Patricia Cooper, Journal of Urban History 30, 3 (March 2004).
- Left History 9 (Summer 2004).
- 鈥淭he Maple Leaf (Gardens) Forever: Sex, Canadian Historians and National History,鈥 Journal of Canadian Studies 36 (Summer 2001).
- 鈥溾楻espect Your Elders, Know Your Past鈥: History and the Queer Theorists,鈥 Radical History Review 75 (1999).
- 鈥淥n the Case of the Case: The Emergence of the Homosexual as a Case History in Early Twentieth-Century Ontario,鈥 in On the Case: Explorations in Social History, ed. Franca Iacovetta and Wendy Mitchinson (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1998). Reprinted in Queerly Canadian: An Introductory Reader in Sexuality Studies, ed. Maureen FitzGerald and Scott Rayter (Toronto: Canadian Scholars鈥 Press, 2012).
- 鈥溾楬orrible Temptations鈥: Sex, Men, and Working-Class Male Youth in Urban Ontario, 1890-1935,鈥 Canadian Historical Review 78 (June 1997). Reprinted in: Crime and Deviance in Canada: Historical Perspectives, ed. Chris McCormick and Len Green (Toronto: Canadian Scholars鈥 Press, 2005) and Canadian Perspectives in Sexualities Studies: Identities, Experiences, and the Contexts of Change, ed. Diane Naugler (Toronto: Oxford University Press, 2012).
- 鈥淭hrough a Hole in the Lavatory Wall: Homosexual Subcultures, Police Surveillance, and the Dialectics of Discovery, Toronto, 1890-1930,鈥 Journal of the History of Sexuality 5 (October 1994). Reprinted in Gender and History in Canada, ed. Joy Parr and Mark Rosenfeld (Toronto: Copp Clark, 1996).
Awards and recognition
- Department of History鈥檚 鈥淎ward for Excellence in Teaching鈥 in 2018
- 鈥淧rincipal鈥檚 Teaching Award for Promoting Student Inquiry鈥 in 2016
- Department of History 鈥淎ward for Excellence in Teaching鈥 in 2011
- The W. Kaye Lamb Prize for the article that most advances archival thinking in Canada, awarded by the Association of Canadian Archivists, June 2010, for 鈥淧olice/Archives.鈥
- Prize for best article published by the Canadian Historical Review in 1997 for 鈥溾楬orrible Temptations鈥: Sex, Men, and Working-Class Male Youth in Urban Ontario, 1890-1935.鈥
- The Audre Lorde Prize for Outstanding Article in North America in 1997, awarded by the American Historical Association鈥檚 Committee on Lesbian and Gay History, for 鈥溾楬orrible Temptations鈥: Sex, Men, and Working-Class Male Youth in Urban Ontario, 1890-1935.鈥
Graduate supervision
Steven is available to work with graduate students whose research interests are in the history of sexuality and in Canadian social history more broadly.
