Alison Lefkovitz
Associate Professor, Federated History
327 Cullimore Hall (CULM)
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

2016 Family, Kinship and Household: New Perspectives Junior Faculty Fellowship, Ohio State University

2015 Albert Dorman Honors College 2015 Exceptional Support Award, Albert Dorman Honors College

2014 NJIT CSLA Excellence in Teaching Undergraduate Education Award, NJIT College of Science and Liberal Arts

2025 Fall Courses
HIST 725 - INDEPENDENT STUDY

HIST 369 - LAW AND SOCIETY IN HISTORY

HIST 726 - INDEPENDENT STUDY

HIST 362 - SEX, GENDER & LAW IN AMER HIST

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

HSS 404: HIST SEM: LGBT HISTORY AND RIGHTS

HSS 404: HIST SEM: MURDER IN U. S. HISTORY

HSS 404: HISTORY SEMINAR: HISTORY OF MURDER

HSS 404: HISTORY SEMINAR: HISTORY OF MURDER

HSS 404: HUMANITIES SENIOR SEMINAR - HISTORY

HSS 404: MURDER IN U. S. HISTORY

HSS 404: MURDER IN U. S. HISTORY HONORS SECTION

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.