Prof. Dr. Stephanie E. Yuhl

Prof. Dr. Stephanie E. Yuhl

Presentation Title: From Margin to Center? The Possibilities in Local Queer History Community-based History Partnerships

College of the Holy Cross/Worcester Historical Museum, USA

Past Speaker

Prof. Dr. Stephanie E. Yuhl is the W. Arthur Garrity, Sr. Professor in Human Nature, Ethics and Society and Professor of History at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts (USA), and former Associate Faculty in the Critical Conservation program at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. She specializes in the social and cultural history of the twentieth- century United States, with emphases in public history, memory, gender/sexuality, Southern history, and social movements. Yuhl is the author of the award-winning book A Golden Haze of Memory:The Making of Historic Charleston as well as multiple articles, book chapters and Digital Humanities projects. She is a practicing public historian who has most recently served as the project lead and co-curator for the major exhibition and archive-building initiative, Worcester LGBTQ+ History Project (funded in part by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation) at Worcester Historical Museum, Yuhl is co-author of LGBTQ+ Worcester: For The Record and directs the ongoing LGBTQ+ Worcester Oral History Project.