Contested Curriculum: Fighting for Queer History in K-12 Schools
Don Romesburg '93
Don Romesburg ’93 is the author of Contested Curriculum: LGBTQ History Goes to School (Rutgers UP, 2025) and editor of the Routledge History of Queer America (2018). As the lead scholar working with advocates to pass the FAIR Education Act, he helped usher LGBTQ content into California's 2016 K-12 History-Social Science Framework and subsequent textbooks. He now trains educators on implementation. For these efforts, he is the namesake of the LGBTQ+ History Association’s Don Romesburg Prize for K-12 Curriculum. Romesburg is also a co-founder of the GLBT Historical Society Museum in San Francisco and Managing Editor of TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly.
Romesburg earned a Ph.D. in U.S. History with an interdisciplinary emphasis on Women, Gender, and Sexuality from the University of California, Berkeley, an MA in history from University of Colorado, Boulder, and a history BA from Claremont McKenna College.
He now serves as Dean of Social Sciences and Fine Arts at Clark College in Vancouver, WA.