Molly McGarry
Molly McGarry, History – (Assistant Professor,
Ph.D. 1999 New York University)
Office: HMNSS Bldg. 6608
Phone: (909) 787-5401 x1-157
E-mail: molly.mcgarry@ucr.edu
Professor McGarry’s research interests include U.S.
History; Gender and Sexuality; Public History/Museum Studies.
Molly McGarry received her B.A. from Cornell University.
After working as a journalist and activist in the Bay Area,
she returned to New York and received her Ph.D. from New
York University. She was awarded NYU's Deans' Dissertation
Award for the best dissertation in the humanities and was
nominated for the Allan Nevin's Prize for the best dissertation
in American history in the country. Her book, Haunting
Reason: Spiritualism and the Cultural Politics of Nineteenth-Century
America, is forthcoming. McGarry has also 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 the National Museum
of American History Smithsonian. In 1994, she co-curated
Becoming Visible: The Legacy of Stonewall the most extensive
exhibit of lesbian and gay history ever mounted in an American
museum or gallery space. A book based on the exhibit was
published by Viking/Penguin Books in 1998. The exhibition
and book have received numerous awards, including those from
the American Association of Museums, the International Association
of Art Critics, the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies, and
the Society of American Archivists.
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