Christopher Ewing is an assistant professor of LGBTQ+ and European history at Purdue University. In his first book, The Colour of Desire: The Queer Politics of Race in the Federal Republic of Germany after 1970 (Cornell, 2023), he examines racism/anti-racism and desire since 1970 in queer movements in the Federal Republic of Germany. Christopher Ewing received his PhD from the Graduate Centre of the City University of New York in 2018 and was an assistant professor at Virginia Commonwealth University from 2018 to 2023. He has published articles in Rethinking History, Central European History, and the Journal of the History of Sexuality, among others. In collaboration with Dr. Sébastien Tremblay, he is editing the anthology Rethinking Queer Media in the German-Speaking World (Palgrave, 2025). He is currently developing a new research project on the global history of hate crime and the politics of violence.

Publications:

2023: The Colour of Desire: The Queer Politics of Race in the Federal Republic of Germany after 1970. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.

2025: The Trials of John Stamford: Gay Travel, Sexual Harm, and Spartacus International Gay Guide, in: Rethinking History 29:3, 509-536.

2024: with Ulrike Schaper. Sexual Frustrations and Dream Vacations: Gay Tourism, Straight Tourism, and the Role of Racialised Desire after West Germany's Sexual Revolution, in: Central European History 57:4, 517-536.