European History: Modern Europe, Modern Germany, History of Sexuality, History of Science and Mathematics
Samuel Clowes Huneke is a historian of modern Europe, with a focus on the social and political history of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Germany. His research interests include the history of gender and sexuality, legal history, and the history of science and mathematics. Dr. Huneke received a B.A. summa cum laude in German and Mathematics from Amherst College, an M.Sc. with Distinction in Applicable Mathematics from the London School of Economics, and a Ph.D. in History from Stanford University. He is currently at work on a book that examines gay persecution and liberation in Germany during the Cold War. He has also begun research for a project that examines crimes against humanity trials in Allied-occupied Germany. His recent scholarly publications include an article on the history of gay suicide in New German Critique and an article on lesbianism in the Third Reich in Journal of Contemporary History. Dr. Huneke also regularly writes for venues including Boston Review, The Point, and Los Angeles Review of Books.
"Death Wish: Suicide and Stereotype in the Gay Discourses of Imperial and Weimar Germany" New German Critique 46.1 (1 February 2019): 127-166.
"The Duplicity of Tolerance: Lesbian Experiences in Nazi Berlin" The Journal of Contemporary History 54.1 (first published 3 April 2017): 30-59.
Graduate
Germany in the Cold War
Undergraduate
Outsiders: History of Modern Germany
Germany after Nazism
PhD in History, Stanford University, 2019
MSc with Distinction in Applicable Mathematics, The London School of Economics and Political Science, 2012
AB summa cum laude in German and Mathematics, Amherst College, 2011
"An End to Totalitarianism" Boston Review. 16 April 2020.
“What’s Wrong with Queer History?” Boston Review. 28 June 2019.
“Gay Liberation Behind the Iron Curtain” Boston Review. 18 April 2019.
“Queering the Vote” The Los Angeles Review of Books. 27 January 2019.
"Does Germany Hold the Key to Defeating Populism?" The Atlantic. 29 March 2017.
"Why Gay German Men Are Seeking Reparations for a Homophobic Nazi Law." VICE. 19 August 2016.
“The gay-suicide stereotype kills gay people, and must end.” Aeon. 16 February 2016.
“Cashing in on Queerness.” Review of David K. Johnson, Buying Gay: How Physique Entrepreneurs Sparked a Movement (New York: Columbia University Press, 2019). The Point. 20 February 2020.
“Atone—But Not Because it Will Save Democracy.” Review of Susan Neiman, Learning from the Germans: Race and the Memory of Evil (New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2019). Boston Review, 16 December 2019.
“The Inadequacies of Justice.” Review of Mary Fulbrook, Reckonings: Legacies of Nazi Persecution and the Quest for Justice (New York: Oxford University Press, 2018). The Los Angeles Review of Books, 21 July 2019.
“Was Socialism Sexy?” Review of Kristen R. Ghodsee, Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism: And Other Arguments for Economic Independence (New York: Nation Books, 2018). The Point, 3 April 2019.
“What’s Left of the Gay Left?” Review of Martin Duberman, Has the Gay Movement Failed? (Berkeley: UC Press, 2018). The Point, 7 December 2018.
“Politics of Hate.” Review of Dan Healey, Russian Homophobia from Stalin to Sochi (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2017). The Los Angeles Review of Books, 26 October 2018.