Josh Cerretti, PhD
(he), Associate Professor
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.
Current Courses
Fall 2024: Introduction to Public History (HIST 393) and Abolitionist Feminisms (WGSS 450)
Winter 2025: LGBTQ+ History in the US (HIST 265) and Women and War (WGSS 317)
Spring 2025: US Urban History (HIST 461) and Intro to WGSS (WGSS 211)
Selected Publications
Monograph
2019 Abuses of the Erotic: Militarizing Sexuality in the Post-Cold War United States (University of Nebraska Press)
Peer Reviewed Articles
2023 "Vagrancy and Sex Work in Early 20th-Century Bellingham." Pacific Northwest Quarterly, Volume 113, Number 4.
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 Chapters
2022 “’Work Does Not Stop with this March on Washington: LGBTQ+ National Mobilizations, 1979-2009” in Understanding and Teaching Contemporary US History since Reagan edited by Kimber Quinney and Amy Sayward.
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
2024 “The Councilor and the Peoples Councils: Unemployed Activism in 1930s Whatcom County.” Journal of the Whatcom County Historical Society. No. 24.
2022 “Book Review: Carrying the Burden of Peace: Reimaginging Indigenous Masculinities Through Story by Sam McKegney. BC Studies, No. 213.
2021 “Book Review: Bohemians West: Free Love, Family, and Radicals in Twentieth-Century America by Sherry Smith, Pacific Northwest Quarterly, Volume 112, Number 4.
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.