Profile
I am a cultural historian, artist, and designer. As a historian, I focus on U.S. gender history, visual and print culture, and the intersections of gender and activism. My visual practice is mainly based in photographic media.
As an academic, I have been a faculty member and administrator in higher education in art and design for over 26 years. I am currently University Professor of Art, Media, and Cultural History at The New School. I served as Executive Dean at Parsons School of Design at The New School (New York City), from July 2019 through July 2022. I currently teach courses at Parsons on research and writing practices for art and design majors, and at Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts on gender history.
I have published three books, numerous peer-reviewed journal articles, additional articles and book chapters. I have exhibited my art works internationally. I recently co-edited a special issue of the Radical History Review with Judith R. Walkowitz, titled "Troubling Terms and the Sex Trades" (forthcoming, May 2024). My most recent book is Elaine Black Yoneda: Jewish Immigration, Labor Activism, and Japanese American Exclusion and Incarceration (Temple University Press, 2021). I am currently conducting research for a book on the visual culture of the fight for reproductive rights in the U.S. during the era of Roe v. Wade.
Degrees Held
PhD, Department of History, Johns Hopkins University, 2009
MA, Department of History, Johns Hopkins University, 2005
MFA, Art & Critical Writing, California Institute of the Arts, 1995
BFA, Graphic Design, Rhode Island School of Design, 1987
Recent Publications
Troubling Terms and the Sex Trades, special issue of Radical History Review, Volume 2024, Issue 149, co-edited with Judith R. Walkowitz (forthcoming, May 2024).
“The Graphic Satire of Robert Minor and Art Young: text and image in political cartoons,” Journal of Modern Periodical Studies 13, no. 1 (June 1, 2022): 43–76.
Elaine Black Yoneda: Jewish Immigration, Labor Activism, and Japanese American Exclusion and Incarceration, Temple University Press, 2021
Modern Print Activism in the United States, Re-issued monograph in paperback, Routledge, 2016. Original publication: Ashgate Publishing, 2011
“‘Breed!’: The Graphic Satire of the Birth Control Review,” in Art, Politics, and the Pamphleteer, eds. Jane Tormey and Gillian Whiteley, Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019.
“A Women’s War Against War: The Socialist Feminism of Four Lights: An Adventure in Internationalism,” Radical Americas 3, no. 1 (2018): 1-16.
Gender and Activism in a Little Magazine: the Modern Figures of the Masses, Re-issued edited book in paperback, Routledge, 2016. Original publication: Ashgate Publishing, 2013
“Someone You Know is a Sex Worker: A Media Campaign for the St. James Infirmary,” in eds. Mary Laing, Katy Pilcher, and Nicola Smith, Queer Sex Work, Routledge, 2015.