Samuel Clowes Huneke is an American historian of modern Europe, author, and essayist. He is assistant professor of history at
George Mason University
George Mason University (George Mason, Mason, or GMU) is a public research university in Fairfax County, Virginia with an independent City of Fairfax, Virginia postal address in the Washington, D.C. Metropolitan Area. The university was origin ...
.
Huneke graduated from
Amherst College
Amherst College ( ) is a private liberal arts college in Amherst, Massachusetts. Founded in 1821 as an attempt to relocate Williams College by its then-president Zephaniah Swift Moore, Amherst is the third oldest institution of higher educatio ...
with a bachelor's degree ''summa cum laude'' in German and Mathematics in 2011. In 2012, he earned an MSc with Distinction in Applicable Mathematics from the
London School of Economics. In 2019, he earned his PhD in modern European history from
Stanford University
Stanford University, officially Leland Stanford Junior University, is a private research university in Stanford, California. The campus occupies , among the largest in the United States, and enrolls over 17,000 students. Stanford is consider ...
, where he studied with historian
Edith Sheffer.
His first book,
States of Liberation: Gay Men between Dictatorship and Democracy in Cold War Germany' (2022) won the Charles E. Smith Award for best book in European History from the European History Section of the
Southern Historical Association. He is also the author of
A Queer Theory of the State' (2023).
In addition to his scholarly publications, his essays have appeared in ''
The Atlantic'', ''
The New Republic'', ''
Boston Review'', and ''
Los Angeles Review of Books''.
His parents are Slavicist
Edith Clowes and mathematician
Craig Huneke.
Works
Books
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References
External links
University Website
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Living people
George Mason University faculty
Year of birth missing (living people)