Alison Lefkovitz

Associate Professor, Federated History
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
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
2016 Honorable Mention for Audre Lorde Prize for Outstanding Article, CLG History of the American History Association
2026 Fall Courses
HIST 725 - INDEPENDENT STUDY
HSS 404 - HISTORY SEMINAR: MURDER IN U.S. HISTORY
HIST 369 - LAW AND SOCIETY IN HISTORY
HIST 726 - INDEPENDENT STUDY
HIST 401 - INDEPENDENT STUDY - HONORS
HIST 701C - MASTER'S THESIS
HIST 727 - INDEPENDENT STUDY
HIST 702 - MASTER'S ESSAY
HIST 401 - INDEPENDENT STUDY
HIST 402 - INDEPENDENT STUDY
HIST 701B - MASTER'S THESIS
Past Courses
HIST 312: PROF DEVELOPMENT IN LAW
HIST 320: LAW AND EVIDENCE
HIST 342: CIVIL RIGHTS REVOLUTION AND LAW
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 369: LAW AND SOCIETY IN HISTORY - HONORS
HIST 628: GENDER SCI & TECH MOD WORLD
HSS 404: HIST SEM:
HSS 404: HIST SEM: CIVIL RIGHTS REV. & LAW
Newspaper
"“The Right Aims to Turn Back the Clock on American Divorce Law” "
Time, July (3rd Quarter/Summer), 2024.
"“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.
Academic Blog Posts
"“The Population Politics of Dobbs” "
The Docket: Law and History Review , June, 2022.
Book
Alison L. Lefkovitz. "Strange Bedfellows: Marriage in the Age of Women's Liberation." University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018.
Journal Article
Alison L. Lefkovitz. 2015. "‘The Peculiar Anomaly’: Same-Sex Infidelity in Postwar Divorce Courts ." Law and History Review, vol. 33, no. August 2015, pp. 665-701.
Alison L. Lefkovitz. 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, vol. 20, no. September 2011, pp. 594-614.