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Chad
Heap joined the American Studies faculty in 2000. His interests include
the history of sexuality, lesbian and gay studies, U.S. urban, spaces and
communities, and social and cultural theory. He is currently completing
his first book, entitled Slumming: Sexual and Racial Encounters in the
Nightlife of Urban America, 1890-1940. Looking at a crucial historical
moment when the mixing of social classes dominated American nightlife, this
book explores the extent to which commercial culture and spaces transformed
the popular conceptualization of early twentieth-century racial, sexual
and class difference. At GW, he teaches undergraduate courses in cultural criticism, sexuality in U.S. history, and U.S. urban history. His graduate seminars have included "Space, Place and Identity" and "Sexuality in American Culture." He received his Ph.D. in history from the University of Chicago, where his work was supported, in part, by a Sexuality Research Fellowship from the Social Science Research Council with funds provided by the Ford Foundation. During the 2002-03 academic year, he is on leave from the university as a Mellon Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Newberry Library in Chicago. Principal Publications:
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