Rachel Devlin

Rachel Devlin’s scholarly interests are in the cultural politics of girlhood, sexuality, and race in the Postwar United States. Her most recent book, A Girl Stands at the Door: The Generation of Young Women who Desegregated America’s Schools considers the disproportionate number of girls who filed lawsuits prior to Brown v. Board of Education, and who were desegregation “Firsts” at historically white schools in the early nineteen sixties.

A Girl Stands at the Door is the recipient of the Lillian Smith Book Award, Honorable Mention, the Darlene Clark Hine Award, given by the Organization of American Historians, The Equality in Justice Award from the New York Unified Court System, and was a Kansas Notable Book for 2019. Devlin has written for The Los Angeles Times, The Huffington Post and Bitch Magazine.