Posted on 06/07/2023 6:33:32 PM PDT by marshmallow
Matt Cook, who has written on queer urban life and the Aids crisis, takes up the new post at Mansfield College
The renowned cultural historian Matt Cook is to become the UK’s first fully endowed professor of LGBTQ+ history in a newly created post at Mansfield College, Oxford.
Cook, who has written extensively on queer urban life, the Aids crisis and queer domesticity, will become the first Jonathan Cooper chair of the history of sexualities later this year.
It’s the first fully endowed specialist post of its kind in the UK, funded by a £4.9m donation from the Arcadia Fund, a grant-making charity that has donated millions of pounds to organisations working on human and natural diversity.
He said of his appointment: “I will be working hard to enhance our understanding of the LGBTQ past and to show how these histories matter now. I’m tremendously excited to have this opportunity to help enlarge Oxford’s reputation for cutting edge work in this burgeoning field.”
Cook has a background in literary and cultural theory, and a strong interest in queer urban, public and community history. He worked with the National Trust on their Prejudice and Pride year in 2017 and co-authored the associated LGBTQ+ guidebook.
He has also advised on community and oral history, archive and museum projects including Heritage England’s Pride of Place and the Pitt Rivers Museum’s Beyond the Binary.
Cook will take up the post in October after 18 years at Birkbeck, University of London, where he was professor of modern history and led the gender and sexuality studies MA programme.
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Participation trophies will be handed out at graduation.
Are they sure he is actually “fully endowed”?
In the beginning cities were destroyed by God because of the perverts.
God may spare San Francisco because they are, apparently, smiting themselves.
I’m sure he will intervene with the coup de gras and smite them with an earthquake. LA too.
Any shitty colleges need a prof? Just because your uni is 1200 years old, doesn’t mean it doesn’t suck. Probably used to be good. Sucks now. Soon will be smited.
And the sooner the better!
I don’t know or care!
Is that for bigger brained scholars than Ending Toxic Masculinity or Theories of Feminist Philosophy? Or Comic Book History?
Amusing list here....
https://www.toptenz.net/to-10-useless-college-classes-degrees.php
A degree in LGBTQ+ History should open up all sorts of lucrative, financial opportunities. Worth every penny.
Newton, Galileo, Copernicus, Leibniz, Tesla, Watt, et al are rolling in their graves. How does that crap further mankind?
Cook has advised on oral history...
I'll bet he's created a lot of oral history himself.
Never thought I would see Oxford debase itself like this.
And what a history: Aids, Monkey Pox,suicide, murder, pedophilia, and the list rolls on.
What a history to teach.
Renowned Christian scholars and professors at Oxford J.R.R. Tolkien and CS Lewis spinning in their graves!
Oxford! How the once mighty institution has been brought down into depravity!
Well...we reached peak politicization of our world I guess...time for peak sexualization now.
Ditto. And I’ve never heard of Mansfield College. Is it new?
Peak perversion. Remember what happened the last time.
I really don’t know that much about Oxford, but I looked Mansfield up on Wikipedia:
Mansfield College, Oxford is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford[3] in Oxford, England. The college was founded in Birmingham in 1838 as a college for Nonconformist students. It moved to Oxford in 1886 and was renamed Mansfield College after George Mansfield and his sister Elizabeth. In 1995 a royal charter was awarded giving the institution full college status. The college grounds are located on Mansfield Road, near the centre of Oxford.
Thanks for the info Red. I see it was originally established in Birmingham to serve “nonconformists.” So I guess it’s only to be expected that they would make a noisy fuss over endowing a chair for “queer studies.”
That word “nonconformists” jumped out at me, also, but without actually looking into it, I am guessing that they would have been people who did not profess themselves to be Anglican.
But, whatever the intentions of forming the school, I am guessing the founders would not have foreseen that the college would become a booster of perversion. Get back in the closet, for Pete’s sake.
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