Ph.D., History, University of Pennsylvania, 1994

B.A., History, Wesleyan University, 1985

Professor, History Dept. and School of Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies

Rethinking the Gay and Lesbian Movement (New York: Routledge, 2012).

Sexual Injustice: Supreme Court Decisions from Griswold to Roe (Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press, 2010).

City of Sisterly and Brotherly Loves: Lesbian and Gay Philadelphia, 1945-72 (Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 2000; 2nd edition with new preface, Philadelphia: Temple Univ. Press, 2004).

Editor-in-Chief, Encyclopedia of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History in America   (3 volumes) (New York: Scribners, 2003).

“All the Immigrants Are Straight, All the Homosexuals Are Citizens, But Some of Us Are Queer Aliens: Genealogies of Legal Strategy in Boutilier v. INS,” Journal of American Ethnic History 29, no. 4 (Summer 2010): 45-77.

 “The Supreme Court’s Sexual Counter-Revolution,” OAH Magazine of History 20, no. 2 (Mar. 2006): 21-25.

“Crossing the Border to Memory: In Search of Clive Michael Boutilier (1933-2003),” torquere 6 (2004; published 2005): 91-115.

“Theoretical Politics, Local Communities: The Making of U.S. LGBT Historiography,” GLQ 11,  no. 4 (2005): 605-625.    

“Boutilier and the U.S. Supreme Court’s Sexual Revolution,” Law and History Review 23, no. 3  (Fall 2005): 491-536.

“Crossing Borders: Memories, Dreams, Fantasies, and Nightmares of the History Job Market.”  Left History 9, no. 2 (Spring/Summer 2004): 119-139.

“Rizzo's Raiders, Beaten Beats, and Coffeehouse Culture in 1950s Philadelphia,” in Modern American Queer History: Essays in Representation, Lived Experience, and Public Policy, ed. Allida M. Black (Philadelphia: Temple Univ. Press, 2001), 155-180. 

“Sex Politics in the City of Sisterly and Brotherly Loves,” in Major Problems in the History of American Sexuality, ed. Kathy L. Peiss (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2001), 431-443.

“Committee on Lesbian and Gay History Survey on LGBTQ History Careers,” Perspectives 39,  no. 5 (May 2001): 29-31.

Courses taught recently:

History 1076: Gender and Sexuality in North American History

History 3625: Constitutional Law and Equal Rights in U.S. History

History 5591: History of Sexuality in the United States, Canada, and Western Europe

History 6020: U.S. History Ph.D. Field Seminar (Team-Taught)

Women’s Studies 6128: Queer Theory

History of Sex, Gender, and Sexuality in the United States

History of U.S. Political Movements, Politics, Law, and Citizenship
 

York University Sabbatical Fellowship, York Univ., 2010-11.

Faculty of Graduate Studies Teaching Award, York Univ., 2010.

York University Faculty Association Research Development Fellowship, “The U.S. Supreme Court’s Sexual Revolution? 1965-1973,” 2007-08.

Audre Lorde Prize for Best LGBT History Article, Committee on Lesbian and Gay History  (American Historical Association), 2006.

Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Standard Research Grant, “The  U.S. Supreme Court’s Sexual Revolution?  1965-1973,” 2001-05.

Awards for the Encyclopedia of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History in America: Library Journal “Best Reference,” 2004; Booklist “Editor’s Choice,” 2004; Reference and User Services Association (American Library Association) “Outstanding Reference Source,” 2005; New York Public Library “Best of Reference,” 2005.