Elizabeth Clement | Associate Professor of History
Director of Graduate Studies
Elizabeth Clement
Associate Professor of History,
Director of Graduate Studies
CTIHB 221 | Office hours: Th 2pm - 4pm.
About
Elizabeth Alice Clement is the Aileen Clyde Professor of History at the University of Utah. Her first book, Love for Sale, won the Dixon Ryan Fox prize from the New York State Historical Society. Her current work focuses on preserving and disseminating materials about the AIDS epidemic in Utah. This public history work has resulted in an archival collection and an oral history project with more than fifty life histories. A documentary film based on her research, Quiet Heroes, premiered at the Sundance in 2018 and won an Emmy Award. Professor Clement has recently completed a monograph titled The Reckoning: AIDS in Conservative America which will be published by University of North Carolina Press. Her work has been supported by the Melon Foundation, the Social Science Research Council, the American Philosophical Society, and the American Council of Learned Societies. Professor Clement has won numerous awards for her teaching and mentoring. When not in the classroom, she can be found biking, hiking, and bartering organic produce for charcuterie at a prominent overpriced market in Salt Lake City.
- PhD, History, University of Pennsylvania
- MA, American History, University of Pennsylvania
- BA, History, Columbia University
Gender, sexuality, and women's history, oral history, and public history
The Reckoning: AIDS in Conservative America, under review with University of North Carolina Press, 2024
Love for Sale: Courting Couples, Charity Girls, Prostitutes, and the Making of Modern Heterosexuality in New York City, 1900-1945, University of North Carolina Press, June 2007
"Obituary Parlor Games: Collecting and Analyzing Obituaries as Sources for Understanding the AIDS Epidemic,” Memory Lives On: Documenting the HIV/AIDS Epidemic,University of California Medical Humanities Press, April 2021
"Defending Our ‘Man Child’: Understanding the Politics of Motherhood through Debates in the U.S. Lesbian Community,” Journal of Women’s History, Winter, 2019
"Modern Sexuality and Modern Times, 1880-1940” with Beans Velocci, for Queer American History, Routledge, Spring 2018.
U.S. Women's History, 1607-1865
U.S. Women's History, 1865-1980
History of Sexuality in the Modern U.S.
Historical and Psychological Perspectives on Gay Family
American Family
Comparative Gender
Aileen Clyde, Professor of History, 2022-2024
Calvin and JeNeal Hatch Prize in Teaching, University of Utah, 2021
Emmy Award (Daytime) for Quiet Heroes, 2019
Distinguisted Mentor Award, Graduate School, University of Utah, 2018
Career Services Faculty Recognition Award, 2017
Faculty Teaching Award for Excellence in General Education, University of Utah, 2016
Early Career Teaching Award, University Teaching Committee, University of Utah 2003
College of Humanities Award for Teaching Excellence (Ramona Cannon), 2007
Distinguished Honors Professor of the Year, 2004