Sofia Hosseinzadeh

Sofia Hosseinzadeh Wins 2nd Place Lang Prize for her Honors Thesis “‘How that Stevenson Rumor Started’: The 1952 Election and Cold War Gender and Sexuality”

Congratulations to Sofia Hosseinzadeh on her 2nd Place Lang Prize win for her honors thesis “‘How that Stevenson Rumor Started’: The 1952 Election and Cold War Gender and Sexuality”! Hosseinzadeh‘s research sheds new light on the role of gender and sexuality in Cold War-era American society. She examined newspaper articles, gossip magazines and FBI transcripts to unpack the origins of the rumor that 1952 presidential nominee Adlai Stevenson was gay. She consulted with a librarian, used the library’s news databases and interlibrary loan service, and contacted the Houston LGBT Archive to obtain sources to complete her honors thesis