Laurie Marhoefer
Associate professor, Department of History
Gender and sexuality, Race, equity and identity, U.S. history, World history
Expertise: Gender, sexuality and LGBT/queer politics in the 20th century United States and Europe, and German electoral politics in the 1920s
Laurie Marhoefer is a historian of queer and trans politics. Their 2015 book on fascism and the politics of sex, “Sex and the Weimar Republic: German Homosexual Emancipation and the Rise of the Nazis,” reexamines the gay and trans rights movements of the 1920s, which were the world’s first. Marhoefer also writes for the press on topics such as neo-Nazism, queer fascism, and the history of AIDS.
Marhoefer co-teaches a class on the global history of AIDS. In addition to a primary appointment in the history department, Marhoefer is also affiliated with the Stroum Center for Jewish Studies and the Department of Germanics.
