Andrea Friedman is an American historian of gender and sexuality with a focus on the modern United States.
[2] Her 1995 dissertation was titled, Prurient Interests: Anti-obscenity Campaigns in New York City, 1909-1945.
[3] Friedman was a lecturer in history at the University of California, Santa Cruz from 1994 to 1996.
[2] In 1996, she joined Arts and Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis as an assistant professor of history and women, gender, and sexuality studies.
[2] In 2012, Friedman won the James M. Holobaugh Award for service to the LGBTQIA community.