I am a cultural historian who specializes in race and U.S. performance and theatre from the nineteenth century to the present. A graduate of Yale's doctoral program in American Studies, I am the Dillon Professor of American History and Professor of African and African American Studies and of Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality at Harvard University. I am also a faculty member in Harvard's doctoral program in American Studies and undergraduate program in Theatre, Dance, and Media. My most recent book, Racial Innocence: Performing American Childhood from Slavery to Civil Rights, won five awards (see http://scholar.harvard.edu/robinbernstein/racialinnocence for full details).

My other books include the edited anthology Cast Out: Queer Lives in Theater (University of Michigan Press) and a Jewish feminist children's book titled Terrible, Terrible! (Kar-Ben Books). Visit me at http://scholar.harvard.edu/robinbernstein/home or follow me on Twitter @RobinMBernstein.