APSA mourns Dr. Kenneth Sherrill, Professor Emeritus of Political Science at Hunter School, CUNY, with a analysis give attention to American politics, public opinion, and homosexual and lesbian politics. Sherrill died on Saturday, December 2, 2023.
Steve Smith, APSA’s Govt Director, shares:
“On behalf of APSA, I wish to specific my deep sorrow for the passing of Professor Kenneth Sherrill. Ken was an exquisite individual and a transformational scholar within the self-discipline. He pioneered the examine of LGBTQ politics over 50 years in the past and mentored numerous college students and school throughout his lengthy profession. He can be sorely missed, however he leaves an enduring legacy in his excellent analysis and his many, many associates, colleagues and college students who had been impressed and mentored by him.”
Throughout his profession, Dr. Sherrill on a number of APSA committees, together with the Committee on the Standing of LGBT People within the Occupation (he was one of many authentic members in 1993), the Committee on Skilled Ethics, Rights and Freedoms, and the Committee on Departmental Companies. He additionally served as an APSA mentor and was a founding member of the LGBT Caucus within the 1987-1988 tutorial 12 months (having participated in an earlier effort to arrange a proper caucus within the Nineteen Seventies).
There are two awards named for Dr. Sherrill’s Honor: The APSA Kenneth Sherrill Award is given for the perfect dissertation proposal for an empirical examine of LGBTQ+ points, and the Kenneth Sherrill Finest Dissertation is an award from the Sexuality and Politics Part that honors a defended dissertation on a queer subject. He generously supported these funds and was a founding member of the APSA Legacy Society. In 1973, authored and offered Dr. Sherrill additionally the primary article on LGBT politics at an APSA annual assembly.
Ken was a consummate tutorial organizer, chief and matchmaker, serving as chairman of his division and the Hunter School School Senate, amongst different issues. Ken was additionally an activist and Democratic Social gathering boss, serving as New York Metropolis’s first overtly homosexual elected official after being elected the celebration’s district chair in New York’s 69th Meeting District in 1977. Ken was a tireless correspondent: for years his listing “KensList” served as an eclectic and humorous supply for information on politics, tradition and all issues queer. He was an incredible raconteur, one of many qualities that made him a go-to supply for native reporters searching for insightful and memorable quips about NYC politics.
Beneficiant, fearless, humorous, sensible and irreverent, Ken was one among a form and this memorial solely begins to do justice to his superb story. I’ll deeply miss my mentor, collaborator and candy buddy. Might his life be an inspiration and his reminiscence a blessing to us all. – Patrick J. Egan, Affiliate Professor of Politics and Public Coverage, NYU and member of APSA’s Organized Part on Sexuality and Politics
To study extra about Dr. For Sherrill’s analysis, his influential profession and his many contributions to the career, learn Celebrating 50 Years of LGBTQ+ Scholarship: Kenneth Sherrill, an LGBTQ+ Chief Who Has No Hassle Discovering Followers by Jerry Thomas, Chair of the APSA Committee on the Standing of LGBT People within the Occupation. The Standing Committee, the LGBT Caucus, and the Sexuality and Coverage Part will maintain a celebration of this milestone on the 2024 Annual Assembly in Philadelphia, PA.
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— Heath Brown (@heathbrown) 3 December 2023
References
Ackelsberg, Martha. 2017. The Politics of LGBTQ Politics in APSA: A Historical past (and Its) Lesson(s). Brettschneider, Marla, Burgess, Susan, and Keating, Christine. LGBTQ Politics: A Vital Reader, New York, USA: New York College Press, 2017. https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9781479849468.001.0001. Steady URL for chapter: https://www.jstor.org/secure/j.ctt1pwt8jh.14
Thomas, Queer (Jerry), Celebrating 50 Years of LGBTQ Scholarship: Kenneth Sherrill, an LGBTQ chief who has no bother discovering followers. Political science as we speak. 2023;3(3):3-4. doi:10.1017/psj.2023.51
Wilson, Angelia R. 2017. Our Tales Brettschneider, Marla, Burgess, Susan, and Keating, Christine. LGBTQ Politics: A Vital Reader, New York, USA: New York College Press, 2017. https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9781479849468.001.0001. Steady URL for chapter: https://www.jstor.org/secure/j.ctt1pwt8jh.14