Samuel Clowes Huneke is assistant professor of history at George Mason University, focusing on modern Germany and the history of sexuality. He is the author of States of Liberation: Gay Men Between Dictatorship and Democracy in Cold War Germany (2022). His essays have appeared in The Point, Boston Review, and elsewhere.
Samuel Clowes Huneke
Articles
Letter to the Editor: Response from Susan Neiman on “Left Is Not Woke”
Susan Neiman responds to Samuel Clowes Huneke’s review of her book “Left Is Not Woke,” and he answers back.
Critically Cringe: On Susan Neiman’s “Left Is Not Woke”
Samuel C. Huneke takes Susan Neiman’s “Left Is Not Woke” to task.
Haunted by Queer Marxism: On Petrus Liu’s “The Specter of Materialism”
Samuel Clowes Huneke reviews Petrus Liu’s “The Specter of Materialism: Queer Theory and Marxism in the Age of the Beijing Consensus."
All Hail the Appeasers
Samuel Clowes Huneke reviews “Munich: The Edge of War” by placing it in its proper historical-cultural context.
A Politics of Stigma: On Heather Love’s “Underdogs: Social Deviance and Queer Theory”
Samuel Clowes Huneke explores Heather Love’s critique of the origins and work of queer theory in “Underdogs: Social Deviance and Queer Theory.”
Black Germans and the Politics of Diaspora: On Tiffany Florvil’s “Mobilizing Black Germany”
Samuel Clowes Huneke reviews Tiffany Florvil’s “Mobilizing Black Germany: Afro-German Women and the Making of a Transnational Movement.”
Recovering Queer Identities
Samuel Huneke explores Jen Manion’s “Female Husbands: A Trans History” and the ways in which we identify queer folx from the past.
The Inadequacies of Justice
Did Germany really pay for the Holocaust? Samuel Clowes Huneke reviews "Reckonings: Legacies of Nazi Persecution and the Quest for Justice."
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