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6608 HUMANITIES SOCSCI
University of California
Riverside, CA 92521

McGarry, Molly

Associate Professor of History

College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences

History


Biography

Molly McGarry received her B.A. from Cornell University and her Ph.D. from New York University. She is author of Ghosts of Futures Past: Spiritualism and the Cultural Politics of Nineteenth-Century America (University of California Press, 2008), co-author of Becoming Visible: An Illustrated History of Lesbian and Gay Life in Twentieth-Century America (Viking, 1999), and co-editor of A Companion to LGBT/Q Studies (Blackwell, 2007). Her fields of specialization include U.S. cultural history, gender and sexuality, and public history and museum studies. She has worked as a public historian, curator, and film consultant with the Chinatown History Project, American Social History Project, New York Public Library, The Jewish Museum and received curatorial awards from the American Association of Museums, the International Association of Art Critics, and the Society of American Archivists. McGarry has held fellowships from the National Museum of American History/Smithsonian Institution, The Pew Charitable Trusts/Center for Religion and Media, and was a recipient of the University of California President's Research Fellowship in the Humanities, 2005-2006.

Former Institution

Bryn Mawr College

Degrees

Ph.D. History 1999

New York University

M.A. History 1992

New York University

B.A. History 1986

Cornell University

Awards

2005-2006 Residential Postdoctora Fellowship, The Center for Religion and Media,
2004-2005 University of California President’s Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in The Humanities
2002-2003 Regents Grant for Junior Faculty Development
2001 Passing-the-Torch Award [for significant work by an emerging scholar in the field of LGTBQ Studies], The Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies, The Graduate Center, CUNY
2000 Dean's Dissertation Award, College of Arts & Sciences, New York University
1999 American Association of Museum's Award for Becoming Visible book
1994-95 Smithsonian Predoctoral Fellowship, National Museum of American History
1994 American Society for State and Local History Award for Becoming Visible exhibit
1994 Heritage of Pride Award for Becoming Visible exhibit
1994 International Association of Art Critics Award for Becoming Visible exhibit
Philip M. Hamer and Elizabeth Hamer Kegan Award, Society of American Archivists for Becoming Visible.


Research Area

U.S. History; Gender and Sexuality; PublicHistory/Museum Studies

Publications

Selected Publications
Books and Edited Collections:

Ghosts of Futures Past: Spiritualism and the Cultural Politics of Nineteenth-Century America. London and Berkeley: University of California Press, 2008.

Co-Editor, A Companion to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Studies (LGBT/Q) Studies. London and Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing Inc., 2007.

Co-Author, Becoming Visible: An Illustrated History of Lesbian and Gay Life in Twentieth-Century America. New York: Viking/Penguin Books, 1998.

Articles and Book Chapters:

“The Quick, the Dead and the Yet Unborn: Untimely Sexualities and Secular Hauntings,” Secularisms. Eds. Janet R. Jakobsen and Ann Pellegrini. Durham: Duke University Press, 2008.

“Ghosts of Futures Past,” [“Geister vergangener Zukunft: Spiritualismus und kulturelle Politik im Amerika des Neunzehnten Jahrhunderts,”] New Ghost Entertainment-Entitled (October 2006).

“Spectral Sexualities: Nineteenth-Century Spiritualism, Moral Panics, and The Making of U.S. Obscenity Law,” Journal of Women’s History, Vol. 12, No. 2 (Summer 2000). Reprinted in Subhadra Channa, ed. Encyclopaedia of Women’s Studies, Volume 3: Women and Religion. New Delhi: Cosmo, 2004.

“Female Worlds” in “Women’s History in the New Millennium: Carroll Smith-Rosenberg’s The Female World of Love and Ritual,” in Journal of Women’s History, Vol. 12, No. 3 (Autumn 2000).