Her book The Straight State: Sexuality and Citizenship in Twentieth Century America (Princeton, 2009) examines military, immigration, and welfare policy to ask how, in the early-to-mid twentieth century, homosexuality came to be a meaningful category for the federal government. The Straight State is the recipient of the Lambda Literary Award for LGBT Studies (2010), the Ellis W. Hawley Prize from the Organization of American Historians (2010), and the Gladys M. Kammerer Award from the American Political Science Association. Screening of Frederick Wiseman’s film State Legislature (2006), with a discussion led by the filmmaker, Saturday, April 16, Time/Room TBA (co-sponsored by the Institute for Liberal Arts and the Departments of Fine Arts and Film Studies)