Martin Anthony Summers

Office: 323 McKenzie hall
Phone: 541.346.6159
E-mail: msummers@darkwing.uoregon.edu

Biographical Information

Associate Professor
Director, Ethnic Studies Program
B.A. 1990, Hampton University
Ph.D. 1997, Rutgers University

Major Publications

Manliness and Its Discontents: The Black Middle Class and the Transformation of Masculinity, 1900-1930 (UNC Press, 2004)

"Diasporic Brotherhood: Freemasonry and the Transnational Production of Black Middle-Class Masculinity," Gender and History (November, 2004)

"'This Immoral Practice': The Prehistory of Homophobia in Black Nationalist Thought," in Gender Nonconformity, Race and Sexuality: Charting the Connections, ed. Toni Lester. (University of Wisconsin Press, 2002)

Current Research and Writing

"Race, Madness, and the State: A History of Patients of Color at St. Elizabeth's Government Hospital for the Insane, 1855 to the Early 20th Century"

Fellowships, Grants and Honors

Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship, National Research Council, 1998-1999
Rutgers Center for Historical Analysis, Associate Fellowship, Rutgers University, 1998-1999

Recent Teaching

African American History
American Masculinities
Black Migrations: Movement and Mobility in the African Diaspora
Gender, Sexuality and the African American Community in Historical Perspective
Black Radical Thought and Politics in the 20th Century United States
Race, Gender, Sexuality and the State in the Americas (with Carlos Aguirre)
Jazz Age America: the U.S. in the 1920s