The Yale International Studies Workshop will host a conversation with Natalie Shibley, who will present "Incident at Fort McClellan: Gender, Black Power, and Military Justice in the Vietnam Era Army".

Natalie Shibley is a Henry A. Kissinger Visiting Scholars Associate Research Scholar at the Jackson School of Global Affairs. She is writing Before Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell: Homosexuality, Race, and Contagion in the U.S. Military, 1941-1993, which is under contract with the University of North Carolina Press. Her article, "Policing Venereal Disease at Fort Huachuca, 1941-1945," published in the Journal of Military History, won the 2025 Society for History in the Federal Government Prize for an Article or Essay. Her research has been supported by the William Nelson Cromwell Foundation, the Schlesinger Library, and Cornell University Library, among other sources. Natalie is also co-editor, with Dorothy Roberts and Eram Alam, of Ordering the Human: The Global Spread of Racial Science (Columbia University Press, 2024). She earned a PhD from the University of Pennsylvania, where she was the first recipient of a joint doctoral degree in Africana studies and history.

The Yale International Studies Workshop is produced with the support of The Edward J. and Dorothy Clarke Kempf Memorial Fund and The Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies, and co-hosted by the Yale Jackson School of Global Affairs.

Lunch will be provided for all participants. To request a copy of the paper, please email Jack Guenther at Jack.Guenther@yale.edu.