Biography
Professor Roth studies the interaction of gender, race/ethnicity, sexuality and class in postwar social protest. Her book, Separate Roads to Feminism: Black, Chicana, and White Feminist Movements in America's Second Wave, published by Cambridge University Press, won the 2006 Distinguished Book Award from the Sex and Gender Section of the American Sociological Association. She has also published on gender dynamics within the militant anti-AIDS movement, on racial/ethnic and class inequalities among working women, specifically domestic workers in the United States. During the academic year 2006-2007, she was awarded a 2007 SUNY Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching. She was an associate editor for the Journal of Women鈥檚 History from 2010-2015.
Professor Roth鈥檚 second book, The Life and Death of ACT UP/LA: Anti-AIDS Activism in Los Angeles from the 1980s to the 2000s was published Cambridge University, 2017.
Professor Roth is currently working on researching grassroots responses to the opioid epidemic from an intersectional perspective that considers, gender, race/ethnicity, class and sexuality as key components of these responses.
Professor Roth is the director of 91社区's Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (WGSS) program (see ). She currently teaches undergraduate and graduate courses that focus on social protest, political sociology, gender and work, the sociology of reproduction, gender studies, and social theory.
Education
- PhD, MA, University of California at Los Angeles
- BA, Brandeis University
Research Interests
- Feminist Intersectional Studies
- Social Protest in the Postwar United States
- The Politics of Health Activism
Honors and Awards
- Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching