COURSES
Undergraduate
- 512:381 Women in American History II
- 512:313 Childhood in America: The Colonial Period to the Present
- 512:225 Sexuality in America: The Colonial Era to the Present.
- 512:104 Development of U.S. II
- 506:401 The 1950s
Graduate
- 510:559 U.S. History: 1850 to the Present
- 510:561 The History of Sexuality and Reproduction
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
- A Girl Stands at the Door: The Generation of Young Women who Desegregated America's Schools, Basic Books, 2018
- Relative Intimacy: Fathers, Adolescent Daughters, and Postwar American Culture, Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2005
- “The Oedipal Age: Postwar Psychoanalysis Reinterprets the Adolescent Girl,” Miriam Forman-Brunell and Leslie Paris, eds., Girls’ History and Culture Reader (University of Illinois, 2011)
- “’Acting Out the Oedipal Wish’: Father-Daughter Incest and the Sexuality of Adolescent Girls in the United States, 1941-1965” The Journal of Social History (Spring, 2005)
- “Female Juvenile Delinquency and the Problem of Sexual Authority in America, 1945-1965,” in Sherrie Inness, ed., Delinquents and Debutantes: Twentieth Century Girls’ Cultures (reprint, originally Yale Journal of Law and the Humanities, 1997)
- “Re-Reading Sex: Battles Over Sexual Knowledge and Suppression in Nineteenth Century America,” Reviews in American History (March, 2006)
AWARDS
- Darlene Clark Hine Award, Organization of American Historians, Honorable Mention, 2019
- Southern Regional Council/Lillian Smith Book Award, 2019
- Fellow, The American Council of Learned Societies, 2015-2016
- Fletcher Fellowship, The Alphonse Fletcher, Sr. Fellowship Program, The W.E.B. Du Bois Institute, Harvard University, 2009-2010
- Fellow, The Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History, Harvard University, 2008-2009
- Sexuality Research Fellowship, Social Sciences Research Council, 2000