Rachel Devlin

Rachel Devlin is an associate professor of history at Rutgers University specializing in the cultural politics of girlhood, sexuality, and race in the postwar United States. She is the author of Relative Intimacy: Fathers, Adolescent Daughters, and Postwar American Culture (2005) and the forthcoming "Girls on the Front Line: Gender and the Battle to Desegregate Public Schools in the United States, 1945–1968." She has received fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies and the Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History at Harvard University.