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rbaxter

Randolph Baxter
Lecturer in American Studies

Email: rbaxter@fullerton.edu
Office: UH-215A
Phone: (714) 278-4936

Dept. of American Studies
California State Univ., Fullerton
Fullerton, CA 92834-6868

Office Hours
- Spring 2008: MWF 11:00am-12:00pm & by appointment

Courses Usually Taught

  • AMST 201 - Introduction to American Studies

Research Interests and Publications

Currently revising dissertation (for possible publication), "'Eradicating This Menace': Homophobia and Anti-Communism in Congress, 1947-1954," a critical study of the US Senate's witch-hunt against "homosexuals and other moral perverts" that paralleled the era's McCarthyite anti-communist purges [see abstract and resume at http://e3.uci.edu/01w/28005/RWBresume.html].

Recent publications and awards:

"'Homo-Hunting' in the Early Cold War," Nebraska History (Fall 2003), 118-32. Winner of the 2004 James L. Sellers Award (awarded annually by the Nebraska State Historical Society).

 

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