Term Professor of Women's and Gender Studies and American Culture Lecturer IV, Professor Emerita, Purchase College, SUNY
enewt@umich.edu
Office Information:
2231 Lane Hall 204 S. State St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1290
phone: 734.936.5762
Women's and Gender Studies
Education/Degree:
University of Michigan, 1962
Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1968 (Anthropology)
About
Esther Newton is retired as Term Professor of American Culture and Women's and Gender 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.
Affiliation(s)
- Faculty: Department of Women's and Gender Studies
- Faculty: Department of American Culture (AC)
- Professor Emerita of Anthropology and Kempner Distinguished Professor, Purchase College, State University of New York
Field(s) of Study
- American Culture
- Gender and sexuality
- LGBT Studies
