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Gabriel N. Rosenberg, Associate Professor of Gender, Sexuality & Feminist Studies

Gabriel N. Rosenberg

Gabriel N. Rosenberg is Associate Professor of Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies and History. He earned his Ph.D. from Brown University in History. He was the recipient of the Gilbert C. Fite Award from the Agricultural History Society, the K. Austin Kerr Prize from the Business History Conference, and a François André Michaux Fund Fellowship from the American Philosophical Society. He was a Postdoctoral Fellow at Yale University's Program in Agrarian Studies, an Early Career Fellow at the University of Pittsburgh's Humanities Center, and a Visiting Scholar at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin. His writing has appeared in journals such as the Journal of American HistoryAmerican Quarterly, GLQ: A Journal of Gay and Lesbian Studies, TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly, Agricultural History, and Diplomatic History.

Broadly, Gabriel Rosenberg's research investigates the historical and contemporary linkages among gender, sexuality, and the global food system. In particular, he studies spaces of agricultural production as important sites for the constitution and governance of intimacy – intimacy both between and among humans, animals, and plants. Although central throughout history to human knowledge about reproduction, agriculture has been peripheral to accounts of the governance of sexuality. In tandem, while historical accounts of American state power have productively questioned matters of governance through the lens of agriculture, they have largely overlooked sexuality as its own formative analytic. His research looks to agriculture as a site of knowledge/power formation that inscribes and mobilizes both human and non-human bodies and desire. Reflecting his training as a historian of the modern United States, he uses the archives of the America’s agricultural past to exhume the tangled relationships between agricultural practices and the governance of human gender and sexuality, a relationship that now conditions America’s relationship to the agricultural peripheries of the global South.

Contact Info:
Office Location:  112 East Duke, Durham, NC 27708
Office Phone:  +1 919 684 4052
Email Address: send me a message

Teaching (Spring 2024):

  • HOUSECS 59.10, HOUSE COURSE (SP TOP) Synopsis
    Friedl Bdg 216, W 07:00 PM-08:30 PM
  • GSF 89S.01, FIRST-YEAR SEMINAR (TOP) Synopsis
    Friedl Bdg 225, TuTh 10:05 AM-11:20 AM
    (also cross-listed as ETHICS 89S.05)
  • GSF 202S.01, LGBTQ STUDIES Synopsis
    Bivins 109, TuTh 03:05 PM-04:20 PM
    (also cross-listed as SXL 199S.01)
Teaching (Fall 2024):

  • HOUSECS 59.07, HOUSE COURSE (SP TOP) Synopsis
    Bryan Center 005, W 07:00 PM-08:30 PM
  • GSF 89S.01, FIRST-YEAR SEMINAR (TOP) Synopsis
    Class Bldg 136, TuTh 10:05 AM-11:20 AM
Education:

Ph.D.Brown University2011
AMBrown University2004
BAGrinnell College2003
Research Interests:

Current projects: The 4-H Harvest: Sexuality and the State in Rural America, Purebred: Making Meat and Eugenics in the Modern United States

Gabriel Rosenberg's research investigates the historical and contemporary linkages among gender, sexuality, and the global food system. In particular, he studies spaces of agricultural production as important sites for the constitution and governance of intimacy – intimacy both between and among humans, animals, and plants. Although central throughout history to human knowledge about reproduction, agriculture has been peripheral to accounts of the governance of sexuality. In tandem, while historical accounts of American state power have productively questioned matters of governance through the lens of agriculture, they have largely overlooked sexuality as its own formative analytic. His research looks to agriculture as a site of knowledge/power formation that inscribes and mobilizes both human and non-human bodies and desire. Reflecting his training as a historian of the modern United States, he uses the archives of the America’s agricultural past to exhume the tangled relationships between agricultural practices and the governance of human gender and sexuality, a relationship that now conditions America’s relationship to the agricultural peripheries of the global South.

Areas of Interest:

modern US History
history of gender and sexuality
mass culture
political economy of food, agriculture, and the environment
childhood studies
animal studies
queer theory
biopolitical theory.

Keywords:

Agriculture • Animals • Environment • Food • Gender • History, Modern • Queer Theory • queer theory • Sexuality

Recent Publications   (More Publications)

  1. Rosenberg, GN, On the scene of zoonotic intimacies jungle, market, pork plant, Transgender Studies Quarterly, vol. 7 no. 4 (November, Submitted, 2020), pp. 646-656 [doi]  [abs]
  2. Rosenberg, GN, No Scrubs: Livestock breeding, eugenics, and the state in the early twentieth-century United States, Journal of American History, vol. 107 no. 2 (January, Submitted, 2020), pp. 362-387, Oxford University Press (OUP) [doi]
  3. Way, ; Okie, ; Funes-Monzote, ; Nance, ; Rosenberg, ; Specht, ; Swart, , Roundtable: Animal History in a Time of Crisis, Agricultural History, vol. 94 no. 3 (Submitted, 2020), pp. 444-444, Duke University Press [doi]
  4. Rosenberg, G, Animals, in The Routledge History of American Sexuality (2020), pp. 32-41, ISBN 9781315637259  [abs]
  5. Rosenberg, G, How Meat Changed Sex, GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, vol. 23 no. 4 (October, Submitted, 2017), pp. 473-507, Duke University Press [doi]  [abs]


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