Alice Echols | |
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 Alice Echols, 2011 | |
| 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 theUniversity of Southern California.[1][2][3]
Echols received herbachelor's degree fromMacalester College,Minnesota in 1973. She obtained hermaster's degree andDoctorate at theUniversity 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] predominantlygay bar where the "music just stunk." After persuasion from friends, she got a trial gig and then was hired, beginning her career as a DiscoDJ.[5]
Echols has been a professor of history at theUniversity 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 atRutgers 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 authoredDaring to Be Bad: Radical Feminism in America 1967-1975 (with foreword byEllen Willis);[6] Scars of Sweet Paradise: The Life and Times ofJanis Joplin; Shaky Ground: The Sixties and Its Aftershocks; andHot Stuff: Disco and the Remaking of American Culture.[7] Her bookShortfall: Family Secrets, Financial Collapse, and a Hidden History of American Banking was published byThe New Press on October 3, 2017.[8]
She also wrote a chapter on theWomen's Liberation Movement in William McConnell's bookThe 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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