Lori Rot­skoff is a cul­tur­al his­to­ri­an. She earned a Ph.D. in Amer­i­can Stud­ies from Yale and teach­es at the Barnard Cen­ter for Research on Women. She is co-edi­tor of When We Were Free to Be and author of Love on the Rocks: Men, Women, and Alco­hol in Post-World War II Amer­i­ca. Her work appears in the Wom­en’s Review of Books and oth­er publications.