A. Finn Enke
Associate Professor of History, Gender and Women’s Studies, and Director of the LGBT Studies Certificate Program

eMail: aenke@wisc.edu
Phone: (608)263-2334
Office: 3408 Sterling Hall

Office Hours: TBA

Education: PhD: August 199, University of Minnesota, Department of History; MA: 1992, University of Minnesota, Comparative Studies in Discourse and Society; BA: 1987 Swarthmore College, Religious Studies, Asian Studies.

Bio Sketch:

I specialize in history of sexuality and gender, primarily 20th century United States. My research and teaching focuses on feminist, queer, and transgender social movements and theory.

Selected Publications:

Under author name Anne Enke:

• Transfeminist Perspectives: In and Beyond Transgender and Gender Studies (editor). Temple University Press, 2012
• “Unlikely Sex Change Capitols of the World: Trinidad, United States, and Tehran, Iran, as Twin Yardsticks of Homonormative Liberalism” (with Elizabeth Bucar). Feminist Studies, 37:2 (Summer) 2011.
• Finding the Movement: Sexuality, Contested Space, and Feminist Activism. Duke University Press, 2007
• "Smuggling Sex Throough the Gates: Race, Sexuality, and Contested Space in Second Wave Feminism," American Quarterly vol. 55 number 4 (December) 2003.
• "Taking Over Domestic Space: The Battered Women's Movement and Public Protest, 1971-1985" in Van Grosse and Richard Moser, eds., The World the Sixties Made: Politics and Culture in Recent America. Temple University, 2003.

Under author name A. Finn Enke:

• “The Education of Little Cis: Binary Gender and the Discipline of Opposing Bodies” in The Transgender Studies Reader Volume 2. Routledge Press, 2012.

   

Courses Taught:

Lecture Courses:

• History 275 - Trans/Gender in Historical Perspective (Topics in LGBT Histories) - Syllabus 2011 (pdf)
• Gender and Women's Studies 340: Topics in LGBTQI Sexualities and Genders

Undergraduate Seminars:

• History 500: Queer Before and After Stonewall
• History 519: Sexuality, Modernity, and Social Change
• Gender and Women’s Studies 642: Advanced Seminar in LGBTQ Studies (LGBT Studies Capstone)

Graduate Courses:

• History 938 - History of Sexuality (Queer History, Queer Theory)