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]
Education[]
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.
Career[]
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]
She was a visiting associate professor at Rutgers University starting in spring 2007.[2]
Echols began her career as The Barbra Streisand Professor in Contemporary Gender Studies and Professor of English and History at the University of Southern California on August 15, 2011.[2]
Honors and awards[]
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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Publications[]
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]
Selected bibliography[]
- Daring to Be Bad: Radical Feminism in America 1967-1975 (with foreword by Ellen Willis)[6]
- Shaky Ground: The Sixties and its Aftershocks (2002)[2]
- Scars of Sweet Paradise: The Life and Times of Janis Joplin (1999)[11]
- Hot Stuff: Disco and the Remaking of American Culture (2009)[2]
References[]
- ^ Charles, Ron (March 8, 2009). "On Campus, Vampires Are Besting the Beats". The Washington Post. Retrieved February 23, 2010.
- ^ Jump up to: a b c d e f "Alice Echols [USC Faculty profile]". University of Southern California. Retrieved March 17, 2013. Retrieved March 17, 2013
- ^ "The '80s are back with 'Transformers'". Today.com. June 29, 2007. Retrieved February 23, 2010.
- ^ Farwell, Frank. "A Restaurant Closes, and a Community Mourns". Huffington Post. Retrieved 2 May 2018.
- ^ Smallwood, Christine (16 April 2010). "Back Talk: Alice Echols". Retrieved 2 May 2018.
- ^ Jump up to: a b "Lit up by her own blowtorch". Irish Times. March 25, 2000. Retrieved February 23, 2010.
- ^ Gavin, James (April 1, 2010). "Dance Dance Revolution". The New York Times. Retrieved March 19, 2017.
- ^ Echols, Alice (3 October 2017). Shortfall. ISBN 9781620973042. Retrieved 2 May 2018.
- ^ McConnell, William S (2004). The counterculture movement of the 1960s. San Diego: Greenhaven Press. OCLC 52819791.
- ^ Harvey, Dennis. "The Secret Disco Revolution". Variety. Variety Media. Retrieved 20 March 2021.
- ^ "Dissecting rock 'n' roll's first female superstar". CNN. May 24, 1999. Archived from the original on 16 February 2010. Retrieved February 23, 2010.
External links[]
Media related to Alice Echols at Wikimedia Commons
- Living people
- 21st-century American historians
- Historians of the United States
- American cultural critics
- University of Southern California faculty
- Macalester College alumni
- University of Michigan alumni
- American women historians
- 21st-century American women writers
- Historians from California