Education
Ph.D., CUNY Graduate Center, 2005
B.F.A, Tisch School of the Arts, NYU, 1990

Interests and Research
Hilary Hallett is a U.S. cultural historian who taught at Rutgers University and the Johns Hopkins University before coming to Columbia as postdoctoral fellow in 2007.  Her current research interests work at the intersection of gender history, popular and mass culture, and the history of the Modern American West.  She is now completing her manuscript, tentatively titled, Go West! Young Women: Early Hollywood and the Rise of Sexual Modernism (under contract with the University of California press).

Affiliations
Organization of American Historians, Society of Cinema and Media Studies, Western History Association, Women’s Association of Western History