Historian at Northwestern. She/they. Wrote a book about migration in post-45 🇩🇪; currently writing about airplanes and their passengers since 1945. Here to promote scholarship and post pictures of airports.
Lauren Stokes
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the genesis of this article is literally freshman year of college, when an anonymous top ten list of worst campus bisexuals listed yours truly at #1. this is the product of the quest to find worse bisexuals.
Just launched: @ceuropeanhistory.bsky.social's new blog featuring the projects of recipients of its annual research & travel grants. Check it out: tinyurl.com/2afay4ct . PS: Applications for the 2026 grants are still being accepted until January 15 (tinyurl.com/695jr4cm). Apply now!
had a fun time on "Black Radicals," a brand-new podcast about anti-racism, feminism, and other necessary topics for the German left. you can catch up with all three episodes now! open.spotify.com/episode/0GWB...
Thursday, April 16, at 10:45am EST, @laurenstokes.bsky.social will be giving the Purdue History Lab inaugural lecture, sponsored by @ces-europe.bsky.social and the Center for American Political History, Media, and Technology!
Join us in UNIV 229 or register here:
purdue-edu.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
it's finally here! I have no idea if it will be useful to anyone! as always, willing to share a PDF with anyone who writes me at my work e-mail. muse.jhu.edu/pub/15/artic...
Chicago Helicopter Airways, May 1960, Shell Aviation News.
I was honored to contribute to the "Inventar der Migrationsbegriffe," which contextualizes German terms about migration. I wrote about the history of the "Wirtschaftsflüchtling" [economic refugee]--as you'll see, a term that deserves further research!
www.migrationsbegriffe.de/wirtschaftsf...
Nice New Year surprise, in part because getting books from Europe to the US has become such an ordeal.
coming your way in January 2026! perversely proud that, as far as I can tell, this will be only the *second* article in JHistSex primarily about bisexuality.
Pleased to announce with @npapadogian.bsky.social a new books event series, featuring Maria Alexopoulou discussing her two(!) recent books with @laurenstokes.bsky.social.
Virtual event, Monday, September 22, at 12pm EDT.
purdue-edu.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
