Samuel Clowes Huneke is an American historian of modern Europe, author, and essayist. He is assistant professor of history at George Mason University.

Huneke graduated from Amherst College with a bachelor's degree summa cum laude in German and Mathematics in 2011. In 2012, he earned an MSc with Distinction in Applicable Mathematics from the London School of Economics. In 2019, he earned his PhD in modern European history from Stanford University, where he studied with historian Edith Sheffer.

His first book, States of Liberation: Gay Men between Dictatorship and Democracy in Cold War Germany (2022) won the Charles E. Smith Award for best book in European History from the European History Section of the Southern Historical Association.[1] He is also the author of A Queer Theory of the State (2023).

In addition to his scholarly publications, his essays have appeared in The Atlantic, The New Republic, Boston Review, and Los Angeles Review of Books.[2][3][4][5]

His parents are Slavicist Edith Clowes and mathematician Craig Huneke.[6]

Works

Books

  • States of Liberation: Gay Men between Dictatorship and Democracy in Cold War Germany. University of Toronto Press. 2022. ISBN 978-1-4875-4213-9.[7][8][9][10][11]
  • A Queer Theory of the State. Floating Opera Press. 2023. ISBN 9783982389462.

References

  1. ↑ "Section Member News" (PDF). European History Section Newsletter. 58 (2): 4. November 2022.
  2. ↑ "Samuel Huneke". The Atlantic. Retrieved 1 October 2023.
  3. ↑ "Samuel Clowes Huneke". The New Republic. Retrieved 1 October 2023.
  4. ↑ "Samuel Clowes Huneke". Boston Review. Retrieved 1 October 2023.
  5. ↑ "Samuel Clowes Huneke". Los Angeles Review of Books Contributors. Retrieved 1 October 2023.
  6. ↑ Huneke 2022, p. xiii.
  7. ↑ Griffiths, Craig (2022). "States of Liberation: Gay Men between Dictatorship and Democracy in Cold War Germany". German History. doi:10.1093/gerhis/ghac077.
  8. ↑ "States of (Gay) Liberation in East Germany and West Germany". PopMatters. 11 July 2022. Retrieved 6 December 2022.
  9. ↑ Ruble, Alexandria N. (2022). "States of Liberation: Gay Men between Dictatorship and Democracy in Cold War Germany by Samuel Clowes Huneke (review)". Journal of History. 57 (3): 514–515. ISSN 2292-8502.
  10. ↑ Ewing, Christopher (2022). "States of Liberation: Gay Men Between Dictatorship and Democracy in Cold War Germany . By Samuel Clowes Huneke". Journal of Social History. doi:10.1093/jsh/shac054.
  11. ↑ Burns, Rob; Janes, Jackson; Johnson, Jason; Nyenhuis, Robert; Wittstock, Nicolas; Olsen, Jonathan; Klikauer, Thomas; Simms, Norman; Silvia, Stephen J. (2023). "Book Reviews". German Politics and Society. 41 (1): 111–139. doi:10.3167/gps.2023.410105.
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