Professor Elizabeth Clement, a prize winning historian, is the author of the book Love for Sale: Courting, Treating, and Prostitution in New York City, 1900-1945 which focuses on how American understandings of the relationship between sexual activity and morality have changed over time.  In it she compares prostitution, a working-class practice called treating (which involves the exchange of sex for entertainment expenses), and courtship. In 2001, this project won the Dixon Ryan Fox Prize for the best manuscript on the history of New York State from the New York State Historical Society. 

Professor Clement's current research project, titled "We Are Family: Gays and Lesbians and the American Family," focuses on gay conceptions of family and broader American views on the relationship between gays and family from 1945-2005. Past publications have dealt with varied gender and sexuality issues from history and their effects on modern society.

Currently, Professor Clement teaches at the University of Utah where she has received several awards for her teaching including the Early Career Teaching Award from the University Teaching Committee, the Honors Professor of the Year, the Virgil Award for Graduate Teaching and the Associated Students of the University of Utah Student Choice Award.

Elizabeth Clement will appear on Saturday, Oct. 28, 2 pm in the Salt Lake City Main Library, Conference Room C.