David Halperin

For the psychiatrist of the same name, see David A. Halperin.

David Halperin (born April 2, 1952) is an American theorist in the fields of gender studies, queer theory, critical theory, material culture and visual culture. He is currently W. H. Auden Collegiate Professor of the History and Theory of Sexuality at the University of Michigan. He received his PhD in English from Stanford University in 1980. He used the method of genealogy to figure out the history of homosexuality.

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How to Do the History of Homosexuality (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002)
The Queer Theory of Michel Foucault (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, forthcoming)
Saint Foucault: Towards a Gay Hagiography (New York: Oxford University Press, 1995)
The Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader, edited with Henry Abelove and Michele Aina Barale (New York: Routledge, 1993)
Before Sexuality: The Construction of Erotic Experience in the Ancient Greek World, edited with John J. Winkler and Froma I. Zeitlin (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1990)
One Hundred Years of Homosexuality and other essays on Greek Love (New York: Routledge, 1990)
Before Pastoral: Theocritus and the Ancient Tradition of Bucolic Poetry (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1983).