The inaugural George E. Haggerty Prize in LGBTQ+ Studies is awarded to:
Unsettling Sexuality: Queer Horizons in the Long Eighteenth Century, edited by Jeremy Chow and Shelby Johnson. This exciting and urgent collection of essays offers new critical frameworks for the study of the queer and trans long eighteenth century by foregrounding Black, Indigenous, Middle Eastern and Asian studies. In addition to the co-editors’ excellent introduction, which conceptualizes the queer and trans eighteenth century through decolonial frameworks, the volume includes thought- provoking chapters by Ula Klein, Johnson, Humberto Garcia, Ziona Kocher, Cailey, Hall, M.A. Miller, Tess J. Given, Nour Afara, and Chow and Riley DeBaecke, along with a brilliant coda by Eugenia Zuroski. The prize committee is particularly inspired by the inclusion of highly original contributions by early-career scholars, an assurance that the future of queer and trans eighteenth- century scholarship is bright. We commend Chow and Johnson for bringing together these important essays.