Natalie Shibley is a Henry A. Kissinger Visiting Associate Research Scholar at the Jackson School of Global Affairs. She is writing a book, 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 research has been published in the Journal of Military History and has been supported by the William Nelson Cromwell Foundation and the Schlesinger 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.