Susan Kathleen Cahn is a historian known for her work on women's studies and LGBTQ topics. She is a professor at the

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Education and career

Cahn has a B.A. from the

University of California, Santa Cruz The University of California, Santa Cruz (UC Santa Cruz or UCSC) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Santa Cruz, California. It is one of the ten campuses in the University of California syste ...

(1981) and an M.A. from the

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(1985). In 1990 she earned a Ph.D. from the

. In 1992 she joined the faculty at the University of Buffalo where, as of 2022 Cahn is an emeritus professor.

Work

Cahn is known for her writing on women in sports, adolescence, lesbian history, and chronic illness. Her 1995 book, ''Coming on Strong: Gender and Sexuality in Twentieth-century Women's Sport'' examines the role of

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in gender equality in sports participation. The book won an award from the North American Society for Sport History, and a second edition was published in 2015. Her work on the rise of women's sports teams, and making women prove their sex has been covered in multiple news outlets. In 2012 she wrote about women growing up in the south in ''Sexual Reckonings: Southern Girls in a Troubling Age''.

Selected publications

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Awards and honors

In 2013 Cahn was named a William S. Vaughn Visiting Fellow by

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. In 2015, Cahn delivered the John R. Betts lecture at the annual meeting of the North American Society for Sport History.

References

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