Alecia Long
Baton Rouge
Louisiana United StatesContact: aleciaplong@cox.net aplong@lsu.edu
Louisiana United StatesContact: aleciaplong@cox.net aplong@lsu.edu
The Great Southern Babylon: Sex, Race, and Respectability in New Orleans, 1865-1920 (2004), Occupied Women: Gender, Military Occupation, and the American Civil War (2009), Cruising for Conspirators: How a New Orleans DA Prosecuted the Kennedy Assassination as a Sex Crime (2021)
Historical
Alecia P. Long is the John L. Loos and Paul W. and Nancy Murrill Professor in the Department of History at Louisiana State University where she teaches courses on several aspects of Louisiana and U.S. History including a course titled History of Conspiracy in the United States. She is the author of The Great Southern Babylon: Sex, Race, and Respectability in New Orleans, 1865-1920 (2004), and co-editor of Occupied Women: Gender, Military Occupation and the American Civil War (2009). Her newest book Cruising for Conspirators: How a New Orleans DA Prosecuted the Kennedy Assassination as a Sex Crime, was published in 2021. At present, she is at work on The Devil’s Wishing Well: Sex, Secrets, Marriage, and Murder in 1950s New Orleans. The book re-examines the unsolved 1952 murder of New Orleans socialite Diddie Cooper.