Anne Gray Fischer

Pronouns
she/her
Position
Laurance S. Rockefeller Visiting Faculty Fellow
Role
2024-25
Office Phone
Office
Green Hall, Room 3-C-6
Bio/Description

Anne Gray Fischer is an assistant professor of U.S. gender and sexuality history at the University of Texas at Dallas. She works at the intersection of gender, sexuality, and race; law enforcement and the state; and feminist activisms in the twentieth-century United States. Her book, “The Streets Belong to Us: Sex, Race, and Police Power from Segregation to Gentrification” (University of North Carolina Press, 2022), documents how urban police departments consolidated and expanded their power through the enforcement of prostitution-related laws between Prohibition and the rise of broken windows policing in the 1980s. At UCHV, she will work on her second book, “Going Ballistic: A Concealed History of Feminism and Guns,” a history of armed feminists since the 1970s.