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• Bio: Kristyn Scorsone (they/them) earned a PhD in American Studies from Rutgers University-Newark. They are a postdoctoral fellow at the Rutgers Center for Historical Analysis for the 2025-2026 Seminar, “Black Power and White Supremacy: The Cyclical Dialectics of Power,” a lecturer in the History department at Rutgers University – Newark and New Brunswick, and a public historian with the Queer Newark Oral History Project and the Humanities Action Lab. In 2025, they were honored with the Rutgers-Newark SASN Dean’s Undergraduate Teaching Award. They are currently working on their first manuscript, A Way Out of No Way: The Labor and Activism of Black Queer and Transgender People in Newark, New Jersey, 1970s to the present, an interdisciplinary work centered on Black feminisms, LGBTQ+ studies, labor studies, cultural history, urban history, and studies of capitalism. Their writing has appeared in The Public Historian, The Journal of American History, The Journal of the History of Sexuality, The Star-Ledger, History@Work, Notches: (re)marks on the history of sexuality, OutHistory, and Out in New Jersey. They also have a chapter in the award-winning book, Queer Newark: Stories of Resistance, Love, and Community edited by Dr. Whitney Strub (RU Press). Website: kristynscorsone.com