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Alecia P. Long

Home Featured Authors & Panelists Featured Participant Lineup 2025 Alecia P. Long

Alecia P. Long is the John L. Loos and Paul W. and Nancy Murrill Professor and Chair of the Department of History at Louisiana State University. She is author of The Great Southern Babylon: Sex, Race, and Respectability in New Orleans, 1865-1920 (2004) and Cruising for Conspirators: How a New Orleans DA Prosecuted the Kennedy Assassination as a Sex Crime (2021). She is currently at work on a book about the 1952 murder of New Orleans socialite Diddie Cooper.  

Schedule

2:00 pm to 2:45 pm
Outside Museum, North Tent
Rainbow Fleur de Lis: Essays on Queer New Orleans History
Frank Perez with moderator Alecia P. Long

Moderator