Molly McGarry Associate Professor of History Ph.D., New York University, 1999 Fields of Interest: 19 th century U.S. cultural history; gender and sexuality, public history (951) 827-1577 molly.mcgarry@ucr.edu

Molly McGarry received her B.A. from Cornell University and Ph.D. from New York University and is currently Director of the Program in Public History in the History Department at UCR.  She has worked as a curator and consultant for The New York Public Library, The Jewish Museum, The Museum of the Chinese in the Americas, and the American Social History Project.  Her exhibits have received curatorial awards from the American Association of Museums, the American Society for State and Local History, the International Association of Art Critics, and the Society of American Archivists. She is co-author with Fred Wasserman of Becoming Visible (Viking, 1999), co-editor with George Haggerty of A Companion to LGBT/Q Studies (Blackwell, 2007), and author of Ghosts of Futures Past (University of California Press, 2008).

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