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Last updated March 2011.

Education

Yale University, New Haven, CT
Ph.D. in History, in progress

• Dissertation: “Integrating Mass Entertainment: Struggles for Fair Representation in American Film and Television” (advisor: George Chauncey; committee members: Joanne Meyerowitz, Matthew Jacobson)

M.Phil. in History, 2009

• Oral examination fields (passed with distinction): U.S. History, 1865-present (Joanne Meyerowitz); U.S. Cultural History (Matthew Jacobson); History of Sexuality in Modern North America and Europe (George Chauncey)

M.A. in History, 2008

Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
A.B. in History and Literature, summa cum laude, 2005

• Honors thesis: “The Making of a ‘Gay Classic’: A Cultural History of Auntie Mame”

Publications

Please visit the Publications page.

Presentations

“‘In the same manner as that of any other minority group’: Racial and Religious Models in Feminist and Gay Struggles for Fair Media Representation, 1960s-1970s,” paper for Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Graduate Colloquium, Yale University, February 21, 2011, New Haven, CT

Invited talk on conducting research in the Human Sexuality Collection as a 2010 Zwickler Fellow, Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program, Cornell University, October 19, 2010, Ithaca, NY

“The Women’s Movement and the Struggle for Fair Representation in Mass Entertainment,” brown bag lunch presentation, Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University, October 15, 2010, Cambridge, MA

“Mainstream Fiction, Gay Reviewers, and the Evolving Politics of Gay Cultural Visibility in the 1970s,” paper for panel titled “Lesbian and Gay Publications and the Instruction of Sexuality in Post-Stonewall America,” Organization of American Historians Annual Meeting, April 7-10, 2010, Washington, DC

“Class and Geography in Campaigns Against Film Stereotypes of African Americans, 1942-1957,” paper for panel titled “The Performance of Power: Visual and Dramatic Arts,” Power and Place in African American History (Fourth Annual New Perspectives on African American History and Culture Conference), University of North Carolina—Chapel Hill, February 26-27, 2010, Chapel Hill, NC

“Popular Fiction, Gay Reviewers, and Gay Male Cultural Politics in the 1970s,” paper for Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Graduate Colloquium, Yale University, April 20, 2009, New Haven, CT

“The Religious Roots of Gay Organizing and Activism in Hartford, Connecticut, 1968-1975,” paper for panel titled “Christianity and the History of Gay Rights: New Narratives,” American Society of Church History Winter Meeting (co-sponsored by Committee on Lesbian and Gay History), January 2-5, 2009, New York, NY

“‘Organized Gay People’: Hartford, Connecticut’s Kalos Society-Gay Liberation Front, 1968-1975,” paper for panel titled “Activism Coast to Coast,” Sex/Changes: Historical Transformations of Sex, Gender, and Sexuality, New England American Studies Association Annual Conference, November 2-3, 2007, Providence, RI

Teaching

Please visit the Teaching page.

Professional service

Website and Online Operations Manager, Committee on LGBT History, 2010-present
Participant, THATCamp New England, November 2010
Adviser to undergraduate editor, Yale Historical Review, November 2010
Research assistant for George Chauncey, Fall 2009, investigating the history of antigay discrimination and gay rights legislation
Mentor, first-year history graduate student, 2008-2009
Judge, New Haven District History Day, 2007-2008

Fellowships and awards

Graduate
Yale University Dissertation Fellowship, 2010-2011
Frederick W. Hilles Memorial Scholarship, 2010-2011
Schlesinger Library Dissertation Grant, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University, 2010
Phil Zwickler Memorial Research Grant, Human Sexuality Collection, Cornell University, 2010
Yale University Fund for Lesbian and Gay Studies (FLAGS) Grant, 2010
Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences University Fellowship, 2006-2008
Yale Summer Language Institute Fellowship, 2007

Undergraduate
Thomas T. Hoopes Prize (for honors thesis), 2005
Barbara Miller Solomon Prize in History and Literature, 2005
Visiting Committee Prize for Book Collecting, 2005

Languages

Reading: Spanish, Latin

Professional affiliations

Organization of American Historians
American Historical Association
Committee on LGBT History