Alison Lefkovitz
Alison Lefkovitz
Associate Professor, Federated History
327 Cullimore Hall
Education
Ph.D.; University of Chicago; Us History; 2010
M.A.; University of Chicago; Us History; 2003
B.A.; Indiana University-Bloomington; History And English; 2002
M.A.; University of Chicago; Us History; 2003
B.A.; Indiana University-Bloomington; History And English; 2002
Awards & Honors
2022 Democracy Conversations Project Award, New Jersey Council for the Humanities/Smithsonian Institute
2019 New Jersey Council for the Humanities Public Scholar, New Jersey Council for the Humanities Public Scholars Project
2019 Berkshire Conference of Women Historians Book Prize Finalist, Berkshire Conference of Women Historians
2018 NJIT Student Senate CSLA Faculty Award, NJIT Student Senate
2016 NJIT Excellence in Teaching Honors Courses Award, NJIT
2019 New Jersey Council for the Humanities Public Scholar, New Jersey Council for the Humanities Public Scholars Project
2019 Berkshire Conference of Women Historians Book Prize Finalist, Berkshire Conference of Women Historians
2018 NJIT Student Senate CSLA Faculty Award, NJIT Student Senate
2016 NJIT Excellence in Teaching Honors Courses Award, NJIT
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Past Courses
HIST 312: PROF DEVELOPMENT IN LAW
HIST 320: LAW AND EVIDENCE
HIST 362: SEX, GENDER & LAW IN AMER HIST
HIST 362: SEX, GENDER, AND THE LAW IN AMERICAN HISTORY
HIST 369: LAW AND SOCIETY IN HISTORY
HIST 628: GENDER SCI & TECH MOD WORLD
HSS 404: HIST SEM:
HSS 404: HIST SEM: CIVIL RIGHTS REV. & LAW
HSS 404: HIST SEM: LGBT HISTORY AND RIGHTS
HSS 404: HIST SEM: MURDER IN U. S. HISTORY
HSS 404: HUMANITIES SENIOR SEMINAR - HISTORY
HSS 404: MURDER IN U. S. HISTORY
HSS 404: MURDER IN U. S. HISTORY HONORS SECTION
HIST 320: LAW AND EVIDENCE
HIST 362: SEX, GENDER & LAW IN AMER HIST
HIST 362: SEX, GENDER, AND THE LAW IN AMERICAN HISTORY
HIST 369: LAW AND SOCIETY IN HISTORY
HIST 628: GENDER SCI & TECH MOD WORLD
HSS 404: HIST SEM:
HSS 404: HIST SEM: CIVIL RIGHTS REV. & LAW
HSS 404: HIST SEM: LGBT HISTORY AND RIGHTS
HSS 404: HIST SEM: MURDER IN U. S. HISTORY
HSS 404: HUMANITIES SENIOR SEMINAR - HISTORY
HSS 404: MURDER IN U. S. HISTORY
HSS 404: MURDER IN U. S. HISTORY HONORS SECTION
Academic Blog Posts
“The Population Politics of Dobbs”
The Docket: Law and History Review , June 2022
The Docket: Law and History Review , June 2022
Newspaper
“A Forgotten Past Repeats Itself as Newark’s Attempt to Create Economic Equity”
Newark Star-Ledger, July (3rd Quarter/Summer) 2021
“Contrary to Conservative Claims, the ERA Would Help Families—But It’s Not Enough”
Washington Post, November 2019
“Jordan Peterson and the Return of the Men’s Rights Movement”
Washington Post, July (3rd Quarter/Summer) 2018
Newark Star-Ledger, July (3rd Quarter/Summer) 2021
“Contrary to Conservative Claims, the ERA Would Help Families—But It’s Not Enough”
Washington Post, November 2019
“Jordan Peterson and the Return of the Men’s Rights Movement”
Washington Post, July (3rd Quarter/Summer) 2018
Book
Lefkovitz, Alison (2018). Strange Bedfellows: Marriage in the Age of Women's Liberation. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press
Other
The Annotated Patent History Digital Archive
September 2017
'Sodomy Is Not Adultery:' The Clinton Sex Scandal as Queer History
Notches: (Re)Marks on the History of Sexuality website, April (2nd Quarter/Spring) 2016
Family and Child Custody in Virginia
George Mason University, August 2014
September 2017
'Sodomy Is Not Adultery:' The Clinton Sex Scandal as Queer History
Notches: (Re)Marks on the History of Sexuality website, April (2nd Quarter/Spring) 2016
Family and Child Custody in Virginia
George Mason University, August 2014
Journal Article
Lefkovitz, Alison (2015). ‘The Peculiar Anomaly’: Same-Sex Infidelity in Postwar Divorce Courts . Law and History Review, 33(August 2015), 665-701.
Lefkovitz, Alison (2011). “Men in the House: Race, Welfare, and the Regulation of Men’s Sexuality in the United States, 1961-1972” . Journal of the History of Sexuality, 20(September 2011), 594-614.
Lefkovitz, Alison (2011). “Men in the House: Race, Welfare, and the Regulation of Men’s Sexuality in the United States, 1961-1972” . Journal of the History of Sexuality, 20(September 2011), 594-614.