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Uncovering & Interpreting Indiana's Queer Past

Join us for a FREE, virtual program on Tuesday, July 5th at 2:30 p.m. EDT!

Join us for an overview of queer history in Indiana, how to approach researching it, and then a discussion on some repositories and resources. Presented by Nicole Poletika.

Nicole Poletika (she/her) is an Indianapolis-based public historian, who specializes in social justice and minority history, as well as history relevance. She earned her Bachelor’s Degree in History from Ball State University and her Master’s in Public History, as well as a Professional Editing Certificate, from IUPUI. Poletika currently works for the Indiana Historical Bureau, a division of the Indiana State Library, where she conducts extensive research for historical markers, most recently Indiana’s first LGBTQ marker. She serves as editor of the Indiana History Blog, and her work has been published in Belt Magazine and Traces of Indiana and Midwestern History. Poletika also helps coordinate women’s history programming, such as the Hoosier Women at Work History Conference and the National Women’s Suffrage Marker Grant Program. As a recipient of Indiana Humanities’ 2021 Wilma Gibbs Moore Fellowship, she has explored the 1972 National Black Political Convention’s legacy of political empowerment. Her findings will be published in the University of Kansas’s forthcoming Liberal Heartland Anthology.

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