Matt Cook is a social and cultural historian specializing in LGBTQ and queer history. Since October 2023, he has served as the Jonathan Cooper Chair of the History of Sexuality at
Mansfield College,
Oxford University. The appointment makes him the UK's first professor of
LGBTQ+ history.
Cook received his PhD in history at
Queen Mary University of London, then served as a lecturer at
Keele University from 2002 to 2005. He went on to teach for 18 years at
Birkbeck College
Birkbeck, University of London (formally Birkbeck College, University of London), is a public university, public research university, located in Bloomsbury, London, England, and a constituent college, member institution of the federal Universit ...
,
University of London, where he ultimately was named professor of
modern history
The term modern period or modern era (sometimes also called modern history or modern times) is the period of history that succeeds the Middle Ages (which ended approximately 1500 AD). This terminology is a historical periodization that is applie ...
and head of the Department of History, Classics and Archaeology.
Professor Matt Cook.
Oxford University. Retrieved 6 December 2023.
Selected publications
*''London and the Culture of Homosexuality, 1885–1914'' (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003).
*''A Gay History of Britain: Love and Sex Between Men since the Middle Ages'' (Oxford: Greenwood, 2007); editor and lead author.
*''Queer 1950s: Rethinking Sexuality in the Post-war Years'' (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012); co-editor with Heike Bauer.
*''Queer Cities, Queer Cultures: Sexuality and Urban Life in post-1945 Europe'' (London: Continuum, 2014); co-editor with Jennifer Evans.
*''Queer Domesticities: Homosexuality and Home Life in Twentieth-Century London'' (London: Palgrave, 2014).
References
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
British historians
Academics of the University of Oxford
Academics of Birkbeck, University of London
Academics of Keele University
Historians of LGBT topics
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