Diana Selig, Ph.D.

Diana Selig is a scholar of twentieth-century U.S. history and is currently the faculty advisor for Gender and Sexuality Studies. She teaches courses on race and inequality, gender, American schools, women’s political history, and LGBTQ history.  She received the Claremont Colleges diversity and inclusion award in teaching and twice received the Queer Resource Center faculty award for her support of LGBTQ students.

Professor Selig is author of the book Americans All: The Cultural Gifts Movement (Harvard University Press), which tells the story of early efforts at multicultural education in the United States. The book examines the vibrant campaign to overcome racial, ethnic, and religious prejudice that flourished between the world wars. It demonstrates how the movement's failure to confront the entrenched forms of discrimination and disfranchisement that African Americans faced limited its vision for diversity and its power to effect change. She is now at work on a study of the memory of the women's suffrage movement in American political and cultural life in the years after ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment.