Franklin Howard
Graduate Student
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About
I came to Chicago by way of Las Vegas, Nevada. Though a Midwest native, I moved West to pursue a Master’s at UNLV in 2014. Over the last six years, I’ve tried my hand at a little bit of everything. For example, I worked as an archivist for both UNLV’s Special Collections and the Las Vegas News Bureau and managed the office for the Southwest Oral History Association. I am also an active member in Phi Alpha Theta, an organization that has helped me in so many ways. My research interests include LGBTQ+ history, the AIDS Crisis, popular culture, and the history of disease and illness.
Courses Taught:
Adjunct Professor
- African American History, 1877-Present, Oakland Community College
Teaching Assistant
- Early America: From Colonization to Civil War and Reconstruction, University of Illinois at Chicago
- China Since 1911, University of Illinois at Chicago
- Middle Eastern Civilization, University of Illinois at Chicago
- U.S. History from Industrialization to Modernization, University of Illinois at Chicago
- Hitler and Constitutional Breakdown, University of Nevada
- History of Sexuality in Multicultural America, University of Nevada
- Prison Management Certification Program’s American Government, Ohio Northern University
Selected Publications
“I was a nigger, still”: Black and White Bodies in the Gay Art of the Twentieth Century,” Psi Sigma Siren: Vol. 8: Iss. 2, Article 2. (2015)
http://digitalscholarship.unlv.edu/psi_sigma_siren/vol8/iss2/2
“Upgrading the Closet: Pulp Fiction and the Gay Man’s Quest for Space in American Society, 1949-1969,” Perspectives in History 29, no. 1 (2013-2014): 24-31.
Notable Honors
2020, History Doctoral Award Grant, UIC History Department
2015, Robert and Anita Hulse Foundation Scholarship, UNLV History Department
2015, 2016, Jerry Kalafatis Lodge Scholarship, UNLV History Department
2014, Walter Pengrey Rogers Award, UNLV History Department
Education
Master of Arts in American History (Minor Field: Public History), University of Nevada Las Vegas (May 2018)
Thesis: The Only People Who Get AIDS—Are People: The AIDS Crisis in Mainstream Comic Books, 1981-1995
Bachelor of Arts in History (Minors: Public History and Museum Studies, Asian Studies), Ohio Northern University (May 2014)
Professional Memberships
- Phi Alpha Theta
- Phi Beta Delta
- Southwest Oral History Association
- Oral History Association
- Committee of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender History of the OAH
- Organization of American Historians
- American Historical Association
Research Currently in Progress
- HIV/AIDS in the American Southwest
- Impacts of Climate and Landscape on Public Health Policy
- The AIDS Crisis in American pop culture
- U.S. and Canadian AIDS activism
- Memory of Stonewall Inn Riots and Pride events