I am a historian of the twentieth-century United States. My research and teaching explore histories of gender, sexuality, and race; law enforcement and the state; and feminist activisms in the modern United States. My first book, The Streets Belong to Us: Sex, Race, and Police Power from Segregation to Gentrification, is a history of sexual policing between Prohibition and the rise of broken windows policing in the 1980s. My second project, Going Ballistic: A Concealed History of Feminism and Guns, traces the genealogy of women’s gun politics from the armed feminist Left of the 1970s to the contemporary Second Amendment mobilization. Going Ballistic has been supported by a Laurance S. Rockefeller Visiting Faculty Fellowship at Princeton University and an ACLS Faculty Fellowship.
I teach U.S. gender history at the University of Texas at Dallas. I received my PhD in History from Brown University with a Certificate in Gender and Sexuality Studies. Essays adapted from The Streets Belong to Us have appeared in the Journal of American History and the Journal of Social History. I have published op-eds, review essays, and interviews in the Washington Post, Boston Review, Bitch, and elsewhere.
Send me an email: agf at utdallas dot edu