Contact Information
810 S Wright
Urbana, IL 61801
Research Areas
Research Interests
Race Relations, African American, History of Sexuality
Research Description
My research focuses on race, politics, and sexuality in modern America, and how struggles over social difference and belonging unfolded in cities and institutions. I am also interested in the writing of biography and public history, particularly in how historians can address important social issues for audiences within and outside the university.
Education
B.A. University of Wisconsin--Madison
M.A. Stanford University
Ph.D. Stanford University
Grants
Schomburg Fellow, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, NEH Library Award, 2005
Fellow, Warren Center for Studies in American History, Harvard University, 2008
Fulbright Senior Scholar, Erfurt Universitait, Germany, 2011
Fellow, U.S. History, John Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 2021
Fellow, Stanford Center for Study in the Behaviorial Sciences, Stanford, CA
Awards and Honors
- The Binkley-Stephenson Award, Organization of American Historians,
- The Audre Lorde Prize, American Historical Association, 2011,
- Short-listed, Randy Shilts Award for Gay Nonfiction, The Publishing Triangle
- Winner, Stonewall Honor Book in Nonfiction, American Library Association Gay Lesbian Bisexual Transgender Round Table
- Winner, Bonnie and Vern Bullough Book Award, Foundation for the Scientific Study of Sexuality
- Short-listed, Lambda Literary Award, LGBTQ Studies
Courses Taught
Problems in African American History
Constructions of Race
The Seventies
History and Film
Additional Campus Affiliations
Professor, History
Recent Publications
Mumford, K. (2023). Re-centering Race and Class in the "Queer Career". Modern American History. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1017/mah.2023.18
Mumford, K. (2020). Black Gay Lives Matter: Mobilizing Sexual Identities in the Eras of Reagan and Thatcher Conservatism. In J. Bell (Ed.), Beyond the Politics of the Closet: Gay Rights and the American State Since the 1970s (pp. 118-138). University of Pennsylvania Press. https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812296723-007
Mumford, K. (2019). Introduction. Journal of African American History, 104(2), 171-175. https://doi.org/10.1086/702472
Mumford, K. (Ed.) (2019). LGBT Themes in African American History. Journal of African American History, 104(2). https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/jaah/2019/104/2
Mumford, K. (2019). Review: P.B. Levy's The Great Uprising: Race Riots in Urban America during the 1960s. American Historical Review, 124(5), 1919-1919. https://doi.org/10.1093/ahr/rhz1194