Lecturer of History
Contact Information
History Programs
Fort Hays State University
711 Park Street
Rarick Hall 381
Hays, KS 67601-4099
(785) 628-5869
hamarquess@fhsu.edu
Fields of Study
American history from the colonial era to the present, women's/gender studies, sexuality, queer history, WWII, the Holocaust
Education
PhD. Gratz College, Holocaust and Genocide Studies (in progress)
M.A., History, Fort Hays State University, 2009
B.A., History, Fort Hays State University, 2006
Certificate, Sociology
Certificate, Women's Gender Studies
Publications
Articles-
“The Foundation of a Movement: Kansas City’s Role in Homophile Activism, 1966-1971.” The Middle West Review 11, no. 2 (Spring 2025): 147-154.
“From the Classroom to the Airwaves: Victor E. History Podcast Uncovers Compelling Narratives.” The Roar 8, no. 2 (Spring/Summer 2024): 40-43. https://issuu.com/forthays/docs/roarspringsummer2024_v3issuu.
“Squirming in the Dark: Playful Occupations for Sex Workers in the 1870 Census.” Notches: (Re)marks on the History of Sexuality (January 2023): https://notchesblog.com/2023/02/28/squirming-in-the-dark-playful-occupations-for-sex-workers-in-the-1870-census/.
“The Frontier Demi-Monde: Prostitution in Early Hays City, 1867-1883.” Kansas History: A Journal of the Central Plains 43, no. 4 (Winter 2020-2021): 216-233. https://scholars.fhsu.edu/history_facpub/2/.
Digital
“Through Hell to the Midwest: Mapping Holocaust Survival using the Midwest Center for Holocaust Education’s Oral History Collection at the Fortunoff Archives.” Co-authored with Amber Nickell and Sarah Keiss. https://www.mwholocaustmap.com/.
“Historical Methods Manul” Open Educational Resource, Co-authored with Brian Gribben, Spring 2025. https://scholars.fhsu.edu/all_oer/13/.
Host and producer of Victor E. History Podcast, which highlights student, faculty, and alumni research from the history department at Fort Hays State University. www.victorehistory.com.
Reviews
Review of Liberating Lawrence: Gay Activism in the 1970s at the University of Kansas in Kansas History: A Journal of the Central Plains (Forthcoming, Summer 2025).
Review of The Camp Fire Girls: Gender, Race, and American Girlhood, 1910-1980 in Kansas History: A Journal of the Central Plains 47, no. 4 (Winter 2024-25): 275-276.
Review of To Be Seen: Queer Lives 1900-1950. Edited by Karolina Kühn and Mirjam Zadoff in Eastern European Holocaust Studies (Fall 2023). https://doi.org/10.1515/eehs-2023-0030.
Review of This Land is Herland: Gendered Activism in Oklahoma from the 1870s to the 2010s Edited by Sarah Eppler Janda and Patricia Loughlin in The Western Historical Quarterly 54, no. 1 (Spring 2023): 77-78. https://doi.org/10.1093/whq/whac078.
Review of Rodeo as Refuge, Rodeo as Rebellion: Gender, Race, and Identity in the American Rodeo by Alyssa Ford in Kansas History: A Journal of the Central Plains 44, no. 3 (Autumn 2021): 221.