Ph.D., History, University of Pennsylvania, 1994
B.A., History, Wesleyan University, 1985

Professor, History Department, Sexuality Studies Program, and School of
Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies


Affiliations: Graduate Program in History; Graduate Program in Gender, Feminist, and Women's Studies; Graduate Program in Social and Political Thought, Founders College

Publications:

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

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

“The U.S. Supreme Court’s Counter-Revolution,” Organization of American
Historians 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): 91-115 (published in 2005).

“Crossing the Border to Memory: In Search of Clive Michael Boutilier (1933-2003),” torquere (forthcoming, 2005).

“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.

“Sexual States and National Insecurities,” Radical History Review, no. 93 (Fall 2005): 277-284.

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

“Post-Tenure Lavender Blues,” History News Network, 7 January 2006,
http://hnn.us/articles/19941.html.

“Did the FBI Try to Blackmail Supreme Court Justice Abe Fortas,” History News Network, 18 July 2005, http://hnn.us/articles/13170.html.

“Recalling Dewey’s Sit-In,” Philadelphia Gay News, 29 April 2005, 10, 22-23. Reprinted as “The First Gay Sit-In,” History News Network, 9 May 2005, http://hnn.us/articles/11652.html.

“If W Had Written the Declaration of Independence,” History News Network, 1 November 2004, http://hnn.us/articles/8062.html.

“Mr. President: I’m Glad You Called,” History News Network, 8 March 2004, http://hnn.us/articles/3969.html.

“Forgetting and Remembering a Deported Alien,” History News Network, 3 November 2003, http://hnn.us/articles/1769.html.

“New Directions in U.S. and Canadian LGBT Urban History,” Canadian Historical
Association, Toronto, May 2006.

“Post-Tenure Lavender Blues,” American Historical Association, Philadelphia,
January 2006.

“Inventing Rights and Wrongs: Rulings, Reception, and the U.S. Supreme Court’s
Sexual Revolution,” Rutgers University, December 2005; Colby College, March
2004; Sexual Worlds, Political Cultures Conference, Social Science Research
Council, Washington, D.C., October 2003; Canadian Lesbian and Gay Studies
Association Conference,” Halifax, June 2003; The 1950s and 1960s in North
America Conference, Wesleyan University, April 2003.

“The U.S. Supreme Court’s Sexual Revolution? 1965-1973,” Temple University, October 2004; University of Maine, February 2004; University of California, Santa Barbara, February 2004.

“Sexual Freedom v. LGBT Civil Rights: Activism, Archives, and Academia,” LGBT Center, University of Pennsylvania, October 2004.

“The Queering of Lesbian/Gay Legal History,” Queer Matters Conference, Kings College London, May 2004.

“New Directions in the History of North American Sexualities,” Endnote Address, Symposium on North American Sexualities, Post-World War II, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, April 2004.

“The Queering of Lesbian/Gay Legal History,” Organization of American Historians, Boston, April 2004.

“State of the Field: History of Sexuality,” Organization of American Historians, Boston, April 2004.

“Securing the National Body: A Roundtable on Cold War Immigration Policy, ” American Studies Association, Hartford, October 2003.

“Sexuality Studies: The Academic Stakes,” Hearts and Minds: Sexuality and Education Conference, University of Toronto, March 2003.

Courses taught recently:

History 3625: U.S. Constitutional Law and Equal Rights
History 3645: Comparative Political Movements in Post-WWII U.S. History
Women's Studies 3536: Queer Cultures
Women's Studies 6128: Queer Theory

History 3620: History of Sexuality in the United States
History 5591, History of Sexuality in the United States, Canada, and Western Europe
History 6020, U.S. History Field Seminar

Audre Lorde Prize for Best Article in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender
History, Committee on Lesbian and Gay History (Affiliated with the American
Historical Association), 2006.

Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Conference Travel Grant, “The Queering of Lesbian/Gay Legal History,” 2004.

Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Standard Research Grant, “The U.S. Supreme Court’s Sexual Revolution? 1965-1973,” 2001-2005.