Sharon Ullman
Historian
Sharon Ullman (she/her) is Emeritus Professor of American History at Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania, where she also directed the Gender and Sexuality Studies Program for many years. She received her BA in History from the University of California at Santa Cruz and her Ph.D. in American History from the University of California at Berkeley. During graduate school, Sharon was a member of the San Francisco Gay and Lesbian History Project – an early grassroots effort to collect and foster queer history – and was a founding member of the GLBT Historical Society Museum and Archives in San Francisco. She served for several years on the board of Equality Forum, a Philadelphia-based organization dedicated to advancing LGBT civil rights and history.
She is the author of Sex Seen: The Emergence of Modern Sexuality in America, and with Kathleen Kennedy, Sexual Borderlands: Constructing an American Sexual Past. She has held the Billington Visiting Professorship at the Huntington Library and Occidental College and the Mercator Visiting Professorship at Erfurt University, Germany. Her recent publications have dealt with popular culture and LGBTQ Studies, including “Queer Performance and Popular Culture” in The Routledge History of Queer America and “Popular Culture: Using Television, Film, and the Media to Explore LGBT History,” in Understanding and Teaching U.S. Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History.