ALUMNA TALK

Marcia M. Gallo (PhD, 2004)

Will discuss her position as the

2017-18 New York Public Library

Martin Duberman Visiting Scholar

March 28 at 2pm

History lounge, room 5114

Marcia M. Gallo received her Ph.D. from the City University of New York Graduate Center in 2004. Her advisor was Distinguished Professor Emeritus Martin Duberman and her dissertation was entitled Different Daughters: The Daughters of Bilitis and the Roots of Lesbian and Women’s Liberation, 1955-1970. Her first book, based on her dissertation, was published in 2006 (Carroll & Graf; Seal Press, 2007). It won the Lambda Literary Award for Nonfiction and was named one of the best books of the year by the San Francisco Chronicle. She also has contributed essays and book chapters exploring post-World War II feminism, progressive queer politics, and oral history methodology to journals as well as edited collections. Currently Gallo is Associate Professor of History at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, where she teaches courses on race, gender and sexuality as well as oral history and public history. Her second book, “No One Helped”: Kitty Genovese, New York City, and the Myth of Urban Apathy (Cornell University Press, 2015) examined the social and cultural impact of the story of Catherine “Kitty” Genovese, whose rape and murder in Queens, New York in 1964 became an international symbol of urban apathy amid the upheavals of the civil rights era.