Faculty

Academic Interests: Sexuality and sex/gender roles; US social change movements

Research: Lesbian and gay organizing 1950s-1960s (Ph.D. dissertation: "Different Daughters: The Daughters of Bilitis and the Roots of Lesbian and Women's Liberation, 1955-1970).

Currently at work on the following projects:

• "Eternal Vigilance: the American Civil Liberties Union and US social change organizing."
• The murders of Kitty Genovese (Kew Gardens, Queens, 1964) and Viola Liuzzo (Selma, Alabama, 1965).

Honors: Dissertation passed with distinction June 2004, Graduate Center, CUNY, directed by Distinguished Professor Martin Duberman.
Elected to Board of Governors, Committee on Lesbian and Gay History, American Historical Association, 2003.
Elected to Board of Directors, Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies (CLAGS), Graduate Center, CUNY, 1999.

Publications:

Entries on the American Civil Liberties Union, Daughters of Bilitis, The Ladder, Cleo "Glenn"; Bonner, Ernestine "Eckstein,"; and Del Martin & Phyllis Lyon; Marc Stein, ed., "Encyclopedia of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender History" (New York: Scribners, est. 2004).

"Lesbian Giving - and Getting: Tending Radical Roots in an Era of Venture Philanthropy,"; Nanette K. Gartrell and Esther D. Rothblum, eds., published simultaneously in Journal of Lesbian Studies (Vol. 5, Number 3, 2001, p 63-70) and "Everyday Mutinies: Funding Lesbian Activism" (New York: Harrington Park Press/Haworth Press).

Featured Article: "Lesbian Philanthropy,"; in Sojourner: The Women's Forum,Vol. 26, No. 5, April, 2000.

Book Review: "Money for Change: Social Movement Philanthropy at Haymarket People's Fund,"; Dan Clawson, ed., Contemporary Sociology: A Journal of Reviews, American Sociological Association, Vol. 26, Number 1, January 1997.