Out now:
“A Queer Constitutional History of Loss: Mayes v. Texas (1974) and the Struggle for the Right to Be Trans in Public in the 1970s,” Journal of American Constitutional History (2025), https://repository.law.wisc.edu/s/uwlaw/media/329662.

Scott De Orio, Ph.D., is a political and legal historian whose research focuses on the history of the regulation and criminalization of LGBTQ+ people in the twentieth-century, both in the United States and transnationally. His first book project, Policing Gay Sex: Male Homosexuality and the Expansion of the Carceral State in Modern America (in production) shows how the policing of gay sex has been implicated in the expansion of the American carceral state and the rise of mass incarceration. He is also at work on a second book project titled The Children’s Crusade: Policing Pedophilia in the Modern Transatlantic World. From 2018–20, De Orio was a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at the Sexualities Project at Northwestern University, and was awarded the 2019 John D’Emilio LGBTQ History Dissertation Award from the Organization of American Historians. His writing has appeared or will appear in the Journal of the History of Sexuality, Law & Social Inquiry, the Journal of American Constitutional History, and the edited collection The War on Sex (Duke, 2017).