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Term Professor of Women's Studies and American Culture Lecturer IV

• Affiliation(s)

  • Faculty: Department of Women's Studies
  • Faculty: Department of American Culture (AC)
  • Professor Emerita of Anthropology and Kempner Distinguished Professor, Purchase College, State University of New York

• Fields of Study

  • American Culture
  • Gender and sexuality
  • LGBT Studies

• About

  Esther Newton is Term Professor of American Culture and Women's Studies.  She is also Professor of Anthropology and Kempner Distinguished Professor Emerita at Purchase College, SUNY.  She was a founder of the Lesbian and Gay Studies Program at Purchase College, the author of numerous articles and of Mother Camp:  Female Impersonators in America;  Cherry Grove, Fire Island:  60 Years in America's First Gay and Lesbian Town and Margaret Mead Made Me Gay:  Personal Essays, Public Ideas.  The last two won the Ruth Benedict Award of the Society of Lesbian and Gay Anthropologists of the American Anthropological Association.  Her next project is a memoir, My Butch Career. She is a Michigan alum, class of '62.
  

• Education

  • University of Michigan, 1962
  • Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1968 (Anthropology)