History

Thomas Foster, Ph.D., Associate Professor and Chair

Foster

 

Phone: 773-325-4169
Office: SAC 422
Email: tfoster4@depaul.edu

Education: Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University

Research and Teaching Interests

Research and Teaching Interests

  • Early America
  • U.S. Women's and Gender History
  • American Revolution
  • History of Sexuality
  • U.S. Social and Cultural History

Courses Offered

  • LSP 200: Race and Ethnicity in Early America
  • LSP 200: Multiculturalism and U.S. Women's History
  • HST 275: Sex in America: From Puritans to Victorians
  • HST 181: U.S. to 1800
  • HST 288: U.S. Women's History
  • HST 354: U.S. Women's History
  • HST 370: American Colonial History
  • HST 422: Seminar in Primary Source Analysis
  • HST 431: Colloquium in American History: British Colonial and Revolutionary America
  • HST 431: Colloquium in American History: Race and Ethnicity in Early America
  • HST 431: Colloquium in American History: Sex and Gender in Early America

Affiliations

Works-in-Progress

  • Editor, Women in Early America: Transnational Histories, Rethinking Master Narratives
  • Sex and the Founding Fathers: From Weems to Wikipedia

Publications

     

Books

  • Editor, Documenting Intimate Matters: Primary Sources for a History of Sexuality in America (U Chicago Press, forthcoming)

Essays

  • “Reconsidering Libertines and Early Modern Heterosexuality: Sex and American Founder, Gouverneur Morris,” Journal of the History of Sexuality (forthcoming)
     
  • “Recovering Washington’s Body-Double: Disability and Manliness in the Life and Legacy of a Founding Father,” Disability Studies Quarterly (January 2012).
     
  • “Sex Between Men in the Eighteenth Century,” reprint of Sex and the Eighteenth-Century Man: Massachusetts and the History of Sexuality in America (Boston: Beacon Press, 2006), ch. 7, in Elizabeth Reis, ed., American Sexual Histories 2nd edition (Blackwell, 2012). 
     
  • “The Sexual Abuse of Black Men Under American Slavery,” Journal of the History of Sexuality 20 (September 2011): 445-64. 
     
  • “John Adams and the Choice of Hercules: Manliness and Sexual Virtue in Eighteenth-Century British America,” in New Men: Manliness in Early America, ed., Thomas A. Foster, (New York: New York University Press, 2011). 
  • “Antimasonic Satire, Sodomy and Eighteenth-Century Masculinity in The Boston Evening-Post,” Notes and Documents, The William and Mary Quarterly 60 (January 2003): 171-84.
    http://www.historycooperative.org/cgi-bin/justtop.cgi?act=justtop&url=http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/wm/60.1/notes_foster.html
  • “Deficient Husbands: Manhood, Sexual Incapacity, and Male Marital Sexuality in Seventeenth-Century New England,” The William and Mary Quarterly 56 (October 1999): 723-44.

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