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."
Queering the Vote
On how LGBTQ populations in the United States support Democrats in much greater numbers than the liberal party support among their counterparts in Europe.
Politics of Hate
Samuel Huneke reviews Dan Healey’s “Russian Homophobia from Stalin to Sochi,” a look at the development of homophobia as a political strategy in Russia.
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