She is author of Ghosts of Futures Past: Spiritualism and the Cultural Politics of Nineteenth-Century America (2008); co-author of Becoming Visible: An Illustrated History of Lesbian and Gay Life in Twentieth-Century America (1999); and co-editor of Blackwell’s A Companion to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Studies (2007). She has worked as a public historian, curator and film consultant with the Chinatown History Project, American Social History Project, New York Public Library and The Jewish Museum, and is currently working on a new book project, Sexual Sedition.