About
Sexing History is a podcast about how the history of sexuality shapes our present. Co-hosted by Gillian Frank and Lauren Gutterman, Sexing History is available on iTunes, Spotify, Soundcloud and wherever else you stream your podcasts.
Gillian Frank
Gillian Frank is the host and co-creator of Sexing History. He is currently a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Virginia where he is working on a book called Making Choice Sacred, which explores the history of clergy who helped women get abortions before Roe v. Wade. He is also co-editing a collection of essays about the histories of Jewishness and sexuality in the United States. When he’s not working on this show or his books, Gillian can be found wandering around Richmond, VA with his family and his two dogs. He tweets from @1gillianfrank1.
Lauren Gutterman
Lauren Gutterman is the host and co-creator of Sexing History. She is also a professor of American Studies at The University of Texas at Austin where she teaches about sex, social movements, and pop culture. Her award-winning book, Her Neighbor’s Wife: A History of Lesbian Desire within Marriage, examines the lives of wives who desired women in the United States since 1945. After living in Chicago, New York, and Michigan, Lauren now resides in ATX where she loves eating tacos, hiking, and swimming with her wife and kids. She tweets from @LaurenGutterman.
Rebecca L. Davis
Rebecca L. Davis is a producer and the story editor for Sexing History. She is the author of Public Confessions: The Religious Conversions That Changed American Politics and More Perfect Unions: the American Search for Marital Bliss , as well as the co-editor with Dr. Michele Mitchell of Heterosexual Histories. Her next book is a single-volume history of sex in America. She teaches U.S. history at the University of Delaware. She lives in Swarthmore, PA with her spouse and their kids. She tweets from @historydavis.
Saniya Lee Ghanoui
Saniya Lee Ghanoui is the senior producer for Sexing History. She is the Program Director for Our Bodies Ourselves Today in the Center for Women’s Health and Human Rights at Suffolk University. Her current book project is a transnational culture history that examines the exchange of sex education ideas, materials, and concepts between the U.S. and Sweden in the 20th century. In between watching numerous sex education films, she is out training for her next marathon. She tweets from @Saniya1.
Stephen Colbrook
Stephen Colbrook is an assistant producer at Sexing History. He is a PhD candidate at University College London, where he is researching a dissertation tentatively titled “Out of the Closet, into Mainstream: AIDS, State Politics, and the Institutionalisation of Queer Activism.” Anchored in case studies of California, Illinois, and Texas, this project examines the political response to the AIDS epidemic at the state and city levels. When he’s not researching or writing, Stephen enjoys cooking, photography, and taking his Labrador for long walks. He tweets from @steve_colbrook.
Mallory Szymanski
Mallory Szymanski is an assistant producer at Sexing History. She is a professor of history at Alfred University where she teaches courses about gender, sexualities, and medicine. Her book project, tentatively titled “He Lost His Grip”: Medicalizing Men’s Sexual and Emotional Lives in Gilded-Age America, engages the ways popular medical discourse helped white men in the late nineteenth century contend with sexual and emotional experiences they feared were damaging their health. She is a new resident of Rochester, NY, and she takes great joy in hiking through Olmsted’s parks and sampling all the ciders, syrups, and donuts the area has to offer.
Katherine Kenny
Katherine Kenny is a research associate at Sexing History. She is a third year student at the University of Virginia studying Media Studies and English. There, she writes for the Cavalier Daily and serves as a Docent at the Fralin Museum of Art. Katherine enjoys running, reading, exploring Charlottesville, and finding the best ice cream in every city she visits.