Collegiate Affiliation
History
Links
Queer as Cop: Gay Patrol Units and the White Fantasy of Safety
Queer Labor: LGBTQ Organizing in the Service Sector

Keira Mac Neill is a Ph.D. student at the University of Minnesota working on a labor history of San Francisco's gay neighborhood in the 1970s and 1980s. Her research focuses on how sexuality, race, and service work shaped the development of the gayborhood as well as its broader impacts on gay electoral politics and historical thought. Keira serves on the University of Minnesota's Graduate Union Bargaining Committee as a representative of the College of Liberal Arts and on the Board of the Committee on LGBT History. She is the recipient of the Stamps Scholar Award and a fellow for the CLA Gender Policy Report. You can find her work in Notches and forthcoming in the Gender Policy Report.

Educational Background & Specialties
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Educational Background

  • B.A. Cum Laude: History with High Honors, Dartmouth College, 2016-2020

Specialties

  • Oral History
  • Queer & Trans History
  • 20th Century Political History
  • Urban History