Jordan Biro Walters

My research investigates the racial and heteronormative underpinnings of American citizenship, the relationship between mobility and queer identity formation, and the intersections of artistic and sexual freedom. I am also a public historian who specializes in digital, community, and oral history projects.

• Intro: History of Sexualities
• U.S. Experience to 1877
• A History of Native America
• The Craft of Public History
• LGBTQ+ History of the Twentieth-Century United States
• Race & Ethnicity in Twentieth-Century America
• U.S. Experience since 1877
• Civil War: Gender & Commemoration

• Wide-Open Desert: A Queer History of New Mexico (University of Washington Press, 2023) https://uwapress.uw.edu/book/9780295751016/wide-open-desert/
• Offending Moral Decency: The 1969 Love-Lust Controversy and the Sexual Revolution in New Mexico, Special issue, New Mexico’s 1960s at 50: Documenting Cultural Change in the Land of Enchantment, New Mexico Historical Review 93, No. 4 (Fall 2018)
• ‘So Let Me Paint’: Navajo Artist R.C. Gorman and the Artist, Native, and Queer Subcultures of San Francisco, California, Pacific Historical Review 88, no. 3 (2019): 439–467. [co-recipient of the 2020 Louis Knott Koontz Memorial Award and recipient of the 2020 Jensen-Miller Award]
• “Bachelor Girls or Perverts?: Teaching Histories of Sexuality in Public History Courses,” History @ Workblog, National Council on Public History, May 16, 2017, http://ncph.org/history-at-work/bachelor-girls-or-perverts-teaching-histories-of-sexuality-in-public-history-courses/

• Faculty Award in Experiential Learning, College of Wooster, 2021
• Jensen-Miller Award, Western History Association, in recognition of  “‘So Let Me Paint’: Navajo Artist R.C. Gorman and the Artistic, Native, and Queer Subcultures of San Francisco, California,” 2020
• Louis Knott Koontz Memorial Award, Pacific Historical Review, in recognition of “‘So Let Me Paint’: Navajo Artist R.C. Gorman and the Artistic, Native, and Queer Subcultures of San Francisco, California”, 2020
• Gault-Welty Business & Community Award, Wayne County Historical Society, 2019
• Harry Ransom Center Research Fellowship in the Humanities, University of Texas at Austin, 2016
• Juliana Wilson Thompson Research Fellowship, College of Wooster, 2016–2017
• American Historical Association-Mellon Career Diversity Fellowship, 2015
• The Dorothy Woodward Memorial Fellowship, Department of History, University of New Mexico, 2013–2014
• George I. Sanchez Fellowship, Center for Southwest Research, University of New Mexico, 2009–2011