Fionnuala Braun
Candidate, M.A. History
| Degrees: | B.A (Hons.) in History (University of Saskatchewan) |
| Email: | fionnualabraun@cmail.carleton.ca |
Current Program (including year of entry): M.A. History (2024)
Supervisors:
Dr. Jennifer Evans and Dr. Susan Whitney
Academic Interests:
Cultural history, history of sex, sexuality and gender, European history, medieval magic practitioners, manuscript transcription and palaeography, history of public health and drug use, digital history methods
Select Publications:
Braun, Fionnuala. “‘Dance and Make Revels’: Cross-Dressing Prostitutes and Gendered Performance as a Method of Accessing Agency in Medieval London.” University of Saskatchewan Undergraduate Research Journal 9, no. 2 (Summer 2024).
Braun, Fionnuala. “Are historians valuable in 2024? Perspectives of an interdisciplinary researcher.” ActiveHistory, September 9, 2024.
Braun, Fionnuala. “Better together than apart: Why studying transnational queer history matters.” The Sheaf, September 22, 2023.
Current Projects:
Muhajarine, Nazeem, Corey Neudorf, Thilina Bandara, Khatira Mehdiyeva, Syed Jafar Raza Rizvi, Fionnuala Braun, Shakil Mirza and Katrina Lemcke. “Dynamics of Trust in Canada during the COVID-19 Pandemic.”
Dyck, Erika, Jim Clifford, Patrick Chassé and Fionnuala Braun. “Pandemic Politics: Developing Vaccines in Canada’s Anti-Vax Heartland.”
Select Conference Contributions:
Braun, Fionnuala. “‘We Shoot Drugs, and We Are Your Sisters:’ Lesbian Drug Users and the Politics of Exclusion in San Francisco’s Activist Queer Organizations, 1980-1992.” Paper presented at the Alcohol and Drugs Historical Society (ADHS) Biennial Conference (Buffalo, NY), June 2024.
Muhajarine, Nazeem, Corey Neudorf, Thilina Bandara, Khatira Mehdiyeva, Syed Jafar Raza Rizvi, Fionnuala Braun, Shakil Mirza and Katrina Lemcke. “Dynamics of Trust in Canada during the COVID-19 Pandemic.” Poster presented at the Canadian Immunization Conference (Ottawa, ON), November 2024.
Braun, Fionnuala. “The Final Days of the Homophile Prophet: Arcadie and Homosexual Populism on the Cusp of the Gay Liberation Movement.” Paper presented at the Michael Swann Honours Colloquium (Saskatoon, SK), January 2023.
Teaching Experience:
The Historian’s Craft (M. Hogue), Fall 2024.
Description of Research:
My thesis focuses on the creation of socio-sexual identities in the French homophile organization Arcadie. As an organization supposedly focused on fostering friendships instead of sexual connections (but doubtless still a place where sexual encounters occurred), the tension between these two facets of identity was high. I will use a variety of visual, textual, and oral sources to reconstruct the strain between sexuality and respectability in Arcadie, as well as how these multiple spheres of existence may have influenced the sexual revolution that occurred in the 1980s. I will also create an online repository of the lived experiences of the members of Arcadie, serving as an online archive for other scholars working in the field of the history of French sexuality.