Andrew Shield
University Lecturer
- Name
- Dr.mult. A.D.J. Shield
- Telephone
- +31 71 527 2550
- a.d.j.shield@hum.leidenuniv.nl
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0002-5253-7921
Dr.(mult.) Andrew DJ Shield is Assistant Professor of Migration History, and affiliated with the interdisciplinary research project “Social Citizenship and Migration.” He is the chair of Leiden’s LGBT+ Network. Shield specializes in sexuality, race, and diversity in Europe since 1945. He holds two PhD degrees: in History (CUNY Graduate Center, 2015) and Communication (Roskilde University, 2018). He is the author of Immigrants in the Sexual Revolution: Perceptions and Participation in Northwest Europe (2017), and Immigrants on Grindr: Race, Sexuality and Belonging Online (2019). Shield received his BA from Brown University (2007), where he studied Arabic and immigration in Europe.
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PhD candidates
Fields of interest
- Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Queer (LGBTQ) History
- Migration History
- Oral History
- Social History
- Postcolonialism
- Intersectionality
- Social Media
Teaching activities
CURRENT:
Global Challenges: Diversity (x2)
MA Thesis seminar (Governance of Migration and Diversity)
PAST (at Leiden University):
Oral History
Queer History Since 1700
Historical Materials & Methods
History of Migration and Diversity
Developing Research Proposals
Grants and awards
2019-2020 - Interdisciplinary Activity Grant (Young Academy Leiden) with Ann Wilson
2018-2019 - Leiden Global Interactions SEED Grant (for new initiatives in Transnational Queer History, with Dr. Ann Wilson)
2015-2018 - Danish Council for Independent Research -- Sapere Aude fellowship
2010-2015 - Enhanced Chancellor’s Fellowship, CUNY Graduate Center
2013-2014 - Advanced Research Collaborative Fellowship (for study in migration)
2011 - Trans-Atlantic Summer Institute Fellowship
2006-2007 - Brown University Rose Writing and Rhetoric Fellow
2006-2007 - C. V. Starr Social Entrepreneurship Fellow, Brown University
Key Publications (selected)
Refereed Books (Monographs):
Shield, Andrew DJ. Immigrants on Grindr: Race, Sexuality and Belonging Online. (Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019).
Shield, Andrew DJ. Immigrants in the Sexual Revolution: Perceptions and Participation in Northwest Europe. (Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017).
Refereed Book Chapters:
Shield, Andrew DJ. “New in Town: Gay Immigrants and Geosocial Dating Apps.” In LGBTQs, Media, and Culture in Europe, edited by Alexander Dhoest, Lukasz Szulc and Bart Eeckhout. (London: Routledge, 2017).
Refereed Articles in Ranked Journals (Most recent):
Shield, Andrew DJ. “Turcs et Marocains aux Pays-Bas pendant la Révolution sexuelle (1964-1979). Une analyse photographique,” Clio. Femmes, Genre, Histoire, 51 «Femmes et genre en migration» (2020): 229-239. (Also in English, online only.)
Shield, Andrew DJ. “The Legacies of the Stonewall Riots in Denmark and the Netherlands,” History Workshop Journal 89 (Spring 2020): 193–206.
https://doi.org/10.1093/hwj/dbz051
Full list on "Publications" page.
University Lecturer
- Faculty of Humanities
- Institute for History
- Economische en Sociale geschiedenis
- Shield A.D.J. (2022) Oral history, intersectionality, and multimedia in A Queer New York. Review of: Gieseking J.J. (2020), A queer New York: Geographies of lesbians, dykes, and queers. New York: New York University Press. Tijdschrift voor Genderstudies 25(2): 184-187.
- Shield A.D.J. (2021), Queer migration and digital media. In: , Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Communication. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- Shield A.D.J. (2020), ‘A Southern man can have a harem of up to twenty Danish women’: Sexotic politics and immigration in Denmark, 1965-1979, Sexualities 23(1-2): 224–240.
- Shield A.D.J. (2020), Turcs et Marocains aux Pays-Bas pendant la Révolution sexuelle (1964-1979): Une analyse photographique, Clio: Femmes, Genre, Histoire 51: 229-239.
- Shield A.D.J. (2020), The Legacies of the Stonewall Riots in Denmark and the Netherlands, History Workshop Journal 89: 193–206.
- Shield A.D.J. (2020) Queering Freud Differently: On the new special issue of Psychoanalysis and History. Review of: .
- Connolly M., Phillips A., Shield A.D.J. & Tongson K. (2020), Queerness in the digital age: a scholarly roundtable, The Velvet Light Trap 86: 49-56.
- Shield A.D.J. & Wilson A.M. (2020), Introduction: Queer Figures and Sources in ‘LGBT History.’, Leidschrift 35(2): 7-20.
- Shield A.D.J. (2019), Immigrants on Grindr: Race, Sexuality and Belonging Online. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan.
- Shield A.D.J. (2019), Multiculturalism and LGBTIQ+ Seniors. Focus on LGBTIQ+ Seniors in Europe 26 April 2019 - 26 April 2019. Amsterdam: Focus on LGBTIQ+ Seniors in Europe.
- Shield A.D.J. (2019), ‘We couldn’t mobilize the same enthusiasm as 11 years ago…’: Transnational Consciousness, Pride, and the Legacies of Stonewall in Denmark. Conference: Stonewall 50 Years On: Gay Liberation and Lesbian Feminism in its European Context 6 December 2019 - 6 December 2019. Manchester Metropolitan University: Stonewall 50 Years On: Gay Liberation and Lesbian Feminism in its European Context.
- Shield A.D.J. (2019), "Intersectionality: Introduction for Historians". Intersectionality 6 September 2019 - 6 September 2019. Leiden University: Cities, Migration, and Global Interdependence.
- Shield A.D.J. (2018), “Looking for north Europeans only”: Identifying Five Racist Patterns in an Online Subculture, Kult 15: 87-106.
- Shield A.D.J. (2018), Grindr Culture: Intersectional and Socio-Sexual, Ephemera: Theory and Politics in Organization 18(1): 149-161.
- Shield A.D.J. (2018), Gay Immigrants and Grindr: Revitalizing Queer Urban Spaces?, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research : .
- Shield A.D.J. (2017), Immigrants in the Sexual Revolution: Perceptions and Participation in Northwest Europe: Palgrave Macmillan.
- Shield A.D.J. (2017), New in Town: Gay Immigrants and Geosocial Dating Apps. In: Dhoest A., Szulc L. & Eeckhout B. (Eds.), LGBTQs, Media, and Culture in Europe. Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies: Routledge. 244-261.
- Shield A.D.J. (2017), When pro-Gay means anti-Muslim. Murmur.
- Shield A.D.J., Intersectionality (in connection with I.T. Gulbrandsen and S. Just). Strategizing Communication. [blog entry].
- Shield A.D.J. (2014), ‘Suriname – Seeking a Lonely, Lesbian Friend for Correspondence’: Immigration and Homo-emancipation in the Netherlands, 1965-79, History Workshop Journal 78(1): 246-264.
- Shield A.D.J. (2012), Review of: Des Jardins Julie, Madame Curie Complex: The Hidden History of Women in Science. The Yale Journal for Humanities in Medicine .