Alice Echols

Alice Echols is Professor of History, and the Barbra Streisand Chair of Contemporary Gender Studies, at the University of Southern California. Much of Echols' work explores the transformative period of the "long Sixties" between the 1950s to the mid-1970s. Her research bridges the cultural gap between scholarly history and popular culture. She draws from her own personal history as a disco DJ as a student and maps societal shifts and influence of counterculture on the mainstream with a feminist perspective.