I am a cultural historian who specializes in U.S. performance and theatre from the nineteenth century to the present. My interests include formations of race, age, gender, and sexuality, and my research integrates the study of theatrical, visual, material, and literary evidence. A graduate of Yale's doctoral program in American Studies, I am 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. 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). I have published articles in PMLA, Social Text, African American Review, Modern Drama, J19: The Journal of Nineteenth-Century Americanists, and other journals. Visit me at http://scholar.harvard.edu/robinbernstein/home.