Josh Cerretti
(he), Associate Professor
Current Courses
Fall 2021: US Women's History (HIST 555)
Winter 2022: LGBTQ+ History in the US (HIST 265)
Spring 2022: Feminist and Queer Methodologies (WGSS 350)
About
University at Buffalo
Ph.D., 2014 Global Gender Studies, Department of Transnational Studies
UN-mandated University for Peace
M.A., 2007 Gender & Peacebuilding
Trinity College (Hartford, CT)
B.A., 2006 Women, Gender, & Sexuality Studies
Research Interests
- Sexuality, race, and gender in modern U.S. history.
Selected Publications
Monograph
2019 Abuses of the Erotic: Militarizing Sexuality in the Post-Cold War United States (University of Nebraska Press)
Peer Reviewed Articles
2016 “Confronting an Enemy Abroad, Transforming a Nation at Home: Domestic Militarism in the US, 1990-1996.” Radical History Review 126: Reconsidering Gender, Violence, and the State.
2016 “Rape as a Weapon of War(riors): The Militarisation of Sexual Violence in the United States, 1990-2000.” Gender & History, Vol. 28 Iss. 3, Gender and Global Warfare in the 20th Century.
Peer Reviewed Collection
2018 “LGBTQ People Organizing for Peace” in Living Out Loud: An Introduction to LGBTQ History, Society, and Culture edited by Michael Murphy with Brytton Bjorngaard.
Other
2020 “Book Review: The Sexual Economy of War: Discipline and Desire in the U.S. Army, by Andrew Byers,” Journal of Military History, Vol. 84, No. 2.
2015 “Book Review: The Struggle Within: Political Prisoners, Prisons, and Mass Movements in the United States, by Dan Berger” WIN Magazine, Vol. 31, No. 1.