Alecia Long
Assistant Professor


223B Himes Hall
578-4413
aplong@lsu.edu

COURSES TAUGHT:   3071: Louisiana History; 4079: Women; History of Sex in the United States (projected Spring 2009)
CURRENT RESEARCH INTERESTS:   U.S. South, Louisiana, Sexuality
INTERESTED IN DIRECTING THESES AND DISSERTATIONS ON:   19th and 20th century social and cultural history of the United States, especially Louisiana and New Orleans; Gender and Sexuality

BRIEF VITA

Education:
B.A., University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, 1988; M.A., Ohio University, 1991; Ph.D., University of Delaware, Newark, DE, 2001.

Awards and Honors:
The Julia Cherry Spruill Publication Prize, 2005, presented by the Southern Association of Women Historians for The Great Southern Babylon: Sex, Race, and Respectability in New Orleans, 1865-1920
Wilbur Owen Sypherd Prize for the outstanding doctoral dissertation in the Humanities, University of Delaware, 2001

Notable Articles:  

"Poverty is the New Prostitution: Race, Poverty, and Public Housing in Post-Katrina New Orleans," The Journal of American History, December, 2007

" 'A Notorious Attraction': Sex and Tourism in New Orleans, 1897-1917," Southern Journeys: Tourism, History, and Culture in the Modern South, University of Alabama Press, 2003

 

   

Book:  

The Great Southern Babylon: Sex, Race, and Respectability in New Orleans, 1865-1920, Louisiana State University Press, 2004