Academic Publications

Devotions and Desires: Histories of Religion and Sexuality in the 20th Century United States (co-edited with Bethany Moreton and Heather White). Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. February 2018.

“Think About that Special Man on His Way Home to You: Conservative Women and the Politics of Marriage in the 1970s,” Porno Chic and the Sex Wars: American Sexual Representations in the 1970s. eds. Carolyn Bronstein and Whitney Strub. Boston: University of Massachusetts Press, 2016.

“The Color of the Unborn: Anti-Abortion and Anti-Busing Politics in Michigan, 1967-1973.” Gender and History, 26, no. 2 (August 2014): 351-378.

“‘The Civil Rights of Parents’: Race and Conservative Politics in Anita Bryant’s Campaign Against Gay Rights in 1970s Florida,” The Journal of the History of Sexuality, 22, no. 1 (January 2013): 126-160.

“A Kiss is Never Just a Kiss: Introducing Students to the History of Sexuality in the United States,” Syllabus Journal. 1 no. 2 (October 2012).

“‘Ideals of stability, order and fidelity’: The Love Dare Phenomenon, Convergence Culture and the Marriage Movement,” Journal of Religion and Popular Culture, 23, no. 3 (Summer 2011): 118-138.

“Discophobia: Anti-Gay Prejudice and the 1979 Backlash Against Disco,” Journal of the History of Sexuality. 16, no. 2 (May 2007): 276-306.
Reprinted in: Queers in American Popular Culture (Santa Barbara: Praeger, 2010).

“Introduction: Sexuality in American Jewish History,” with Jonathan Krasner and Rachel Kranson, American Jewish History. 104, no. 4 (Oct 2020): 487-491.