Austin Gallas

Austin Gallas

Austin Gallas

Graduate Lecturer

Police reform, public sexuality, undercover surveillance, sex work, New York City, social history, archives

Austin Gallas is a PhD candidate in Cultural Studies. His research explores undercover surveillance, police reform, and sexual commerce in turn-of-the-century New York City.

Selected Publications

(forthcoming) "The Price of the Ride in New York City: Sex, Taxis, and Entrepreneurial Resilience in the Dry Season of 1919,” Journal of the History of Sexuality 31.1 (Winter 2022)

“Review of The Anti-Capitalist Chronicles by David Harvey,” Lateral 10.1 (Spring 2021), https://doi.org/10.25158/l10.1.27

Courses Taught

COMM 380: Media Criticism. Department of Communication (Spring 2022)

COMM 101: Fundamentals of Communication. Department of Communication (Spring 2022)

COMM 302: Media Theory (online synchronous). Department of Communication (Fall 2021)

INTS 347: Gender Representation in Popular Culture (online synchronous). School of Integrative Studies (Fall 2020, Spring 2021)

INTS 336: Poverty, Wealth, and Inequality in the U.S. School of Integrative Studies (Fall 2018, Fall 2019, Fall 2020)

CULT 320: Globalization and Culture. Cultural Studies (Fall 2015, Fall 2016, Fall 2019, Spring 2020)

INTS 310: Violence and Gender. School of Integrative Studies (Spring 2018, Spring 2019)

INTS 391: Introduction to Integrative Studies. School of Integrative Studies (Fall 2017, Spring 2018, Fall 2018, Spring 2019)

NCLC 103: Human Creativity: Science and Art. New Century College (now "School of Integrative Studies”) (Spring 2014, Spring 2015, Spring 2016)

NCLC 101: Narratives of Identity. New Century College (now “School of Integrative Studies”) (Fall 2013, Fall 2014)