Victoria W. Wolcott

PhD

Victoria Wolcott.

Victoria W. Wolcott

PhD

Victoria W. Wolcott

PhD

Global Gender and Sexuality Studies offers an intersectional approach to the most vital questions of our time..

Education

  • PhD, University of Michigan, 1995

Selected Awards

  • SUNY Chancellor’s Award, 2025; National Endowment for the Humanities, 2016; Distinguished Lecturer, Organization of American Historians

Selected Publications

  • Utopian Imaginings: Saving the Future in the Present (2024)
  • Living in the Future: Utopianism and the Long Civil Rights Movement (2022)
  • Race, Riots, and Roller Coasters: The Struggle Over Segregated Recreation in America (2012)
  • Remaking Respectability: African American Women in Interwar Detroit (2001)

Professional Affiliations

  • Urban History Association
  • Organization of American Historians
  • American Historical Society

Ongoing Projects

  • The Embodied Resistance of Eroseanna Robinson: Athleticism and Activism in the Cold War Era, monograph in progress