Thinking South: Hooper Schultz
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2026 McColl Fellow Hooper Schultz will present on his dissertation project, “Campus Queens,” which uses oral histories and archival sources to examine the relationship between gay rights activism and higher education in the 1970s at four public universities in the South. Brown bag lunch; beverages provided.
Hooper Schultz is an oral historian and PhD candidate in history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He earned his MA in southern studies and MFA in documentary expressions at the University of Mississippi. His research interests include the queer South, gay liberation and lesbian feminism, student activism, and queer oral history. Schultz co-edited the special Queer South issue of Southern Cultures.