Jordan Walters
Jordan Biro Walters, associate professor of history at The College of Wooster, received her Ph.D. from the University of New Mexico in 2015. Her research focuses on racial and heteronormative underpinnings of American citizenship, the relationship between mobility and queer identity formation, and the intersections of artistic and sexual freedom. Walters published her book, Wide-Open Desert; a Queer History of New Mexico, in 2023 and has authored several articles featured in historical review publications, such as Pacific Historical Review and New Mexico Historical Review. She served as the director for the Wooster Digital History Project from 2017 to 2019, co-directing in 2022, and is still involved as a public historian, working in conjunction with the College’s Special Collections, the Wayne County Historical Society, and the Wayne County Public Library to document a comprehensive and representative account of Wooster’s history. Walters is also a board member of the Wayne County Historical Society. Outside of her work at Wooster, Walters acts as an oral historian of the Bennet Hammer LGBT Collection at the Center for Southwest Research in the University of New Mexico, an exhibit featuring testimonies of LGBT community members and activists from New Mexico during a period of significant development of LGBT issues and policies. She has taught a variety of courses during her time at Wooster, including but not limited to The Craft of Public History, Civil War: Gender & Commemoration, A History of Native America, and LGBTQ+ History of the Twentieth Century United States.