Samuel Huneke
@schuneke.bsky.social
Historian of Queerness, Democracy, Dictatorship • Words in LARB, TNR, Baffler • represented by Inkwell Management • 🏳️🌈 • opinions my own
My next book has a cover! I Will Not Abandon You is a new history of queer women under Nazism that calls for us to rethink how we understand fascist persecution as well as the very foundations of progressive politics today. You can preorder it anywhere you buy books
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October 15, 2025 at 1:45 PM
My next book has a cover! I Will Not Abandon You is a new history of queer women under Nazism that calls for us to rethink how we understand fascist persecution as well as the very foundations of progressive politics today. You can preorder it anywhere you buy books
bookshop.org/p/books/i-wi...
bookshop.org/p/books/i-wi...
The proofs have landed 🎉
October 7, 2025 at 11:01 PM
The proofs have landed 🎉
My review essay for Archiv für Sozialgeschichte is out!! 20k words taking stock of where queer German history is and where it is going. DM if you’d like the pdf (it will be available open access only after a year).
October 1, 2025 at 3:35 PM
My review essay for Archiv für Sozialgeschichte is out!! 20k words taking stock of where queer German history is and where it is going. DM if you’d like the pdf (it will be available open access only after a year).
Proofs are here!!! Watch out for this chunky review essay in this year’s Archiv für Sozialgeschichte
August 2, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Proofs are here!!! Watch out for this chunky review essay in this year’s Archiv für Sozialgeschichte
Going through copy edits of my history of lesbians in Nazi Germany, and this sentence that I first wrote years ago hits hard today.
July 11, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Going through copy edits of my history of lesbians in Nazi Germany, and this sentence that I first wrote years ago hits hard today.
Historian friends, be sure to vote in the AHA elections! There’s a great slate of candidates running against the establishment picks.
July 10, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Historian friends, be sure to vote in the AHA elections! There’s a great slate of candidates running against the establishment picks.
Which headshot should I go with?
June 27, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Which headshot should I go with?
I do love serving on book prize committees 📚
May 29, 2025 at 5:21 PM
I do love serving on book prize committees 📚
Ethics, according to NYU
May 15, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Ethics, according to NYU
I’ll be giving a public lecture *Being Queer in Times of Trouble* at the Goethe Institute in DC on June 4 in conversation with activists Mai Manion and Andrew Tisell. You can RSVP here! www.eventbrite.com/e/being-quee...
May 12, 2025 at 1:55 PM
I’ll be giving a public lecture *Being Queer in Times of Trouble* at the Goethe Institute in DC on June 4 in conversation with activists Mai Manion and Andrew Tisell. You can RSVP here! www.eventbrite.com/e/being-quee...
The democrats should be trying to flip every house seat wtf is this clownery
April 8, 2025 at 4:26 PM
The democrats should be trying to flip every house seat wtf is this clownery
So excited to be giving the opening keynote at this conference @joncatlin.bsky.social is putting on. I’ll be talking about how Nazis persecuted queer women and how those women resisted fascism. events.rochester.edu/event/new-di...
April 1, 2025 at 11:16 AM
So excited to be giving the opening keynote at this conference @joncatlin.bsky.social is putting on. I’ll be talking about how Nazis persecuted queer women and how those women resisted fascism. events.rochester.edu/event/new-di...
What a wonderful book launch Rachel and I had at the University of Glasgow!
Reimagining Citizenship in Cold War Europe just came out last month. It features cutting-edge research from twelve brilliant scholars and is available Open Access: www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...
Reimagining Citizenship in Cold War Europe just came out last month. It features cutting-edge research from twelve brilliant scholars and is available Open Access: www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...
March 25, 2025 at 3:24 PM
What a wonderful book launch Rachel and I had at the University of Glasgow!
Reimagining Citizenship in Cold War Europe just came out last month. It features cutting-edge research from twelve brilliant scholars and is available Open Access: www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...
Reimagining Citizenship in Cold War Europe just came out last month. It features cutting-edge research from twelve brilliant scholars and is available Open Access: www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...
WaPo announcing it wants to be a low-rent version of the economist
February 26, 2025 at 6:29 PM
WaPo announcing it wants to be a low-rent version of the economist
Teaching Paxton’s Anatomy of Fascism today and yikes does the intro hit harder this year
February 25, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Teaching Paxton’s Anatomy of Fascism today and yikes does the intro hit harder this year
Coup of the nitwits
February 4, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Coup of the nitwits
Come one, come all! Rachel Chin and I are launching Reimagining Citizenship in Postwar Europe on Feb. 17 with a Zoom event. We'll be in conversation with my brilliant colleague Sam Lebovic, talking about all of the amazing research in this book. RSVP here: eventbrite.com/e/reimaginin...
December 18, 2024 at 5:28 PM
Come one, come all! Rachel Chin and I are launching Reimagining Citizenship in Postwar Europe on Feb. 17 with a Zoom event. We'll be in conversation with my brilliant colleague Sam Lebovic, talking about all of the amazing research in this book. RSVP here: eventbrite.com/e/reimaginin...
This is embarrassing
November 30, 2024 at 8:06 PM
This is embarrassing
Picked up my copies of A Queer Theory of the State in Berlin and couldn’t be happier with this gorgeous little volume
December 1, 2023 at 12:18 PM
Picked up my copies of A Queer Theory of the State in Berlin and couldn’t be happier with this gorgeous little volume
We’re off to Berlin for the week! Very excited to be attending the opening of the exhibit “gefährdet leben” about queer people in Nazi Germany at the Bundestag
www.bundestag.de/ausstellung-...
www.bundestag.de/ausstellung-...
November 25, 2023 at 7:34 PM
We’re off to Berlin for the week! Very excited to be attending the opening of the exhibit “gefährdet leben” about queer people in Nazi Germany at the Bundestag
www.bundestag.de/ausstellung-...
www.bundestag.de/ausstellung-...
Come listen to me talk about queer women in Nazi German next week!
November 8, 2023 at 4:14 PM
Come listen to me talk about queer women in Nazi German next week!
We have page proofs!! So excited to see this little volume out in the world.
cup.columbia.edu/book/a-queer...
cup.columbia.edu/book/a-queer...
September 21, 2023 at 3:29 PM
We have page proofs!! So excited to see this little volume out in the world.
cup.columbia.edu/book/a-queer...
cup.columbia.edu/book/a-queer...
It feels so weird to be posting on a new platform, but enjoy this insanely gorgeous picture from my last day on lake Como, where I’ve been conferencing with a bunch of brilliant German historians
July 2, 2023 at 10:35 PM
It feels so weird to be posting on a new platform, but enjoy this insanely gorgeous picture from my last day on lake Como, where I’ve been conferencing with a bunch of brilliant German historians