Simon Fisher
Assistant Professor

Email: simon.fisher@dal.ca
Research Topics:
- United States History (1865-present)
- History of Gender and Sexuality
- African American History
- Queer and Transgender Studies
Education:
- BA (English Literature/Womenās Studies) ā DePaul University
- MA (Interdisciplinary Humanities) ā University of Chicago
- PhD (History) ā University of Wisconsin-MadisonĀ
Teaching
Fall:
- HIST 2615/GWST 2301Ā Making Gender: Sex & Gender from the American Revolution
- HIST 3600 Social Justice in US History (20th c)
- HIST 4501 US Colonialism and Post-colonialismĀ
Winter:
- HIST 2332 The American Republic from 1865 (survey)
- HIST 3369 America in the 1960
- HIST 2335 Modern American Culture
Winter 2025 Office Hours
- Tuesdays 1:30-2:30 or by appointment
Selected Publications
- Fisher, Simon D. Elin. āChallenging Dissemblance in Pauli Murray Historiography, Sketching a History of the Trans New Negro,ā Journal of African American History, 104.2 (2019).
- Republished in Narrow, Stephanie, Kim Carry Warren, and Judy Tzu-Chun Wu, eds. Unequal Sisters: A Revolutionary Reader in U.S. Womenās History. Routledge, 2023.
- Fisher, Simon D. Elin, Ido Katri, and Rasheedah Phillips, eds., Somatechnics - Trans Temporalities [special issue], 7.1 (2017).
- Fisher, Simon D. Elin. āPauli Murrayās Peter Panic: Perspectives from the Margins of Race and Gender in Jim Crow America,ā Transgender Studies Quarterly, 3.1 (2016).
- Republished in Stryker, Susan, and Dylan McCarthy Blackston, eds. The Transgender Studies Reader Remix. Routledge, 2022.