Alice Echols | |
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Academic background | |
Alma mater | Macalester College, University of Michigan |
Academic work | |
Discipline | History |
Sub-discipline | Contemporary Gender Studies |
Institutions | Rutgers University, University of Southern California |
Alice Echols is Professor of History, and the Barbra Streisand Chair of Contemporary Gender Studies, at the University of Southern California. [1] [2] [3]
Echols received her bachelor's degree from Macalester College, Minnesota in 1973. She obtained her master's degree and Doctorate at the University of Michigan in 1980 and 1986 respectively. [2]
While in graduate school at the University of Michigan, Echols visited the Rubaiyat, a since-closed [4] predominantly gay bar where the "music just stunk." After persuasion from friends, she got a trial gig and then was hired, beginning her career as a Disco DJ. [5]
Echols has been a professor of history at the University of Southern California since 2004. Since 2011 she has been the Barbra Streisand Professor of Contemporary Gender Studies, an endowed professorship. Echols was a visiting associate professor at Rutgers University during the 2009-2010 academic year. [2]
Honor or Award | Date |
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Rackham Dissertation Grant, The University of Michigan | 1984 |
Center for Gender Research Fellowship | 1985 |
University Fellowship, The University of Michigan | 1986 |
The Horace H. Rackham Distinguished Dissertation Award, The University of Michigan | 1987 |
ACLS Grant-in-Aid Fellowship | 1990 |
Gustavus Meyers Outstanding Book Award-Daring to Be Bad | 1990-1991 |
General Education Course Innovation Award | 2006-2007 |
USC Endowed Professorship, Barbra Streisand Professor of Contemporary Gender Studies and Professor of English, Gender Studies and History | 2011-2016 |
USC Endowed Professorship, Barbra Streisand Professor of Contemporary Gender Studies | 2016- |
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She authored Daring to Be Bad: Radical Feminism in America 1967-1975 (with foreword by Ellen Willis); [6] Scars of Sweet Paradise: The Life and Times of Janis Joplin; Shaky Ground: The Sixties and Its Aftershocks; and Hot Stuff: Disco and the Remaking of American Culture. [7] Her book Shortfall: Family Secrets, Financial Collapse, and a Hidden History of American Banking was published by The New Press on October 3, 2017. [8]
She also wrote a chapter on the Women's Liberation Movement in William McConnell's book The Counterculture Movement of the 1960s. [9]
Echols was also interviewed in the 2012 documentary, The Secret Disco Revolution, where she emphasized the political nature of disco and its role in Black, queer, and women's liberation. [10]
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