Dr.(mult.) Andrew DJ Shield is Assistant Professor of Migration History, and affiliated with the interdisciplinary research project “Social Citizenship and Migration.” He is the chair of Leiden’s LGBT+ Network. Shield specializes in sexuality, race, and diversity in Europe since 1945. He holds two PhD degrees: in History (CUNY Graduate Center, 2015) and Communication (Roskilde University, 2018). He is the author of Immigrants in the Sexual Revolution: Perceptions and Participation in Northwest Europe (2017), and Immigrants on Grindr: Race, Sexuality and Belonging Online (2019). Shield received his BA from Brown University (2007), where he studied Arabic and immigration in Europe.

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Fields of interest

• Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Queer (LGBTQ) History
• Migration History
• Oral History
• Social History
• Postcolonialism
• Intersectionality
• Social Media

Teaching activities

CURRENT:
Global Challenges: Diversity (x2)
MA Thesis seminar (Governance of Migration and Diversity)

PAST (at Leiden University):
Oral History
Queer History Since 1700
Historical Materials & Methods
History of Migration and Diversity
Developing Research Proposals

Grants and awards

2019-2020 - Interdisciplinary Activity Grant (Young Academy Leiden) with Ann Wilson
2018-2019 - Leiden Global Interactions SEED Grant (for new initiatives in Transnational Queer History, with Dr. Ann Wilson)
2015-2018 - Danish Council for Independent Research -- Sapere Aude fellowship
2010-2015 - Enhanced Chancellor’s Fellowship, CUNY Graduate Center
2013-2014 - Advanced Research Collaborative Fellowship (for study in migration)
2011 - Trans-Atlantic Summer Institute Fellowship
2006-2007 - Brown University Rose Writing and Rhetoric Fellow
2006-2007 - C. V. Starr Social Entrepreneurship Fellow, Brown University 

Key Publications (selected)

Refereed Books (Monographs):

Shield, Andrew DJ. Immigrants on Grindr: Race, Sexuality and Belonging Online. (Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019).

Shield, Andrew DJ. Immigrants in the Sexual Revolution: Perceptions and Participation in Northwest Europe. (Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017).

Refereed Book Chapters:

Shield, Andrew DJ. “New in Town: Gay Immigrants and Geosocial Dating Apps.” In LGBTQs, Media, and Culture in Europe, edited by Alexander Dhoest, Lukasz Szulc and Bart Eeckhout. (London: Routledge, 2017).

Refereed Articles in Ranked Journals (Most recent):

Shield, Andrew DJ. “Turcs et Marocains aux Pays-Bas pendant la Révolution sexuelle (1964-1979). Une analyse photographique,” Clio. Femmes, Genre, Histoire, 51 «Femmes et genre en migration» (2020): 229-239. (Also in English, online only.)

Shield, Andrew DJ. “The Legacies of the Stonewall Riots in Denmark and the Netherlands,” History Workshop Journal 89 (Spring 2020): 193–206.
https://doi.org/10.1093/hwj/dbz051

Full list on "Publications" page.

Publications