Faculty Profile for Dr. Jessica R Pliley
Biography Section
Biography and Education
Jessica R. Pliley is a Professor of Women’s and Gender History at Texas State University and holds a Ph.D. from the Ohio State University. She is the author of Policing Sexuality: The Mann Act and the Making of the FBI (Harvard, 2014) and the co-editor of Fighting Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking: History and Contemporary Policy (Cambridge, 2021) and Global Anti-Vice Activism (Cambridge, 2016). Her work has appeared in the Journal of Women’s History, the Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, and the Journal of the History of Sexuality and several anthologies. Her current research explores the long history of anti-trafficking movement from the late nineteenth century to the early twenty-first century.Selected Scholarly/Creative Work
- Pliley, J. R., LeBaron, G., & Blight, D. (Eds.). (2021). Fighting Modern Day Slavery and Human Trafficking: History and Contemporary Policy. New York: Cambridge University Press. Retrieved from https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/fighting-modern-slavery-and-human-trafficking/2FBEBA3D01169D34B37BC4DCAB36BB0E
- Pliley, J. R. (2019). Prostitutes and Prostitution in American History. In Oxford Encyclopedia of American Urban History (pp. 430–465). New York, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- Pliley, J. R. (Ed.). (2019). Global Anti-Vice Activism, 1890 - 1950: Fighting Drinks, Drugs, and ‘Immorality,’ 1870 – 1940 (Paperback). New York: Cambridge University Press. Retrieved from https://catalog.library.txstate.edu/record=b3528108~S1a
- Pliley, J. R. (n.d.). Protecting and Policing: Revising Rape Law, Prostitution Law and Trafficking Law in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era. In The Cambridge History of Sexuality in the United States, Volume 2. New York: Cambridge University Press.
- Pliley, J. R. (n.d.). Gender and Enslavement: The Global Anti-Trafficking Movement, 1885-1949. In A Cultural History of Slavery and Human Trafficking in the Age of Global Conflict: Volume 5: Global Conflict, Colonialism, and Decolonization, 1900-1945. London, UK: Bloomsbury Academic.
Selected Awards
- Award / Honor Recipient: Presidential Distinction Award for Excellence in Service, College of Liberal Arts. 2024
- Award / Honor Recipient: Presidential Distinction for Excellence in Service, College of Liberal Arts. 2023
- Award / Honor Recipient: Presidential Distinction Award for Excellence in Teaching, College of Liberal Arts, Texas State University. 2022
- Award / Honor Recipient: Teaching Award of Honor, Texas State Alumni Association. 2020
- Award / Honor Recipient: Achievement Award for Excellence in Teaching, College of Liberal Arts. 2019
Selected Grants
- Pliley, Jessica (Co-Principal), Valencia, Louie Dean (Co-Principal). Library Online Resource Grant to purchase Sex and Sexuality Research from the Kinsey Institute database, Alkek Library, Texas State University, $41925. (Funded: 2020). Grant.
- Pliley, Jessica R. Library Online Research Grant for Women’s Magazine Archive, Collection 1., Texas State University, $2773. (Funded: August 2023 - Present). Grant.
- Pliley, Jessica R (Principal). Research Enhancement Program Grant, Texas State University, Institutional (Higher Ed), $8000. (Submitted: October 2022, Funded: May 2023 - May 2024). Grant.
- Pliley, Jessica R (Supporting). Grants to Sustain and Advance the Work of Historical Organizations Program, American Historical Association, Private / Foundation / Corporate, $11850. (Submitted: 2022, Funded: 2022 - 2023). Grant.
- Pliley, Jessica R (Principal). Research Enhancement Grant, Texas State University, Institutional (Higher Ed), $8000. (Submitted: 2016, Funded: 2017). Grant.
Selected Service Activities
Reviewer / Referee
Journal of the History of Sexuality
2018-Present
Reviewer / Referee
Journal of American Ethnic History
2017-Present
Trustee
Berkshire’s Conference for the History of Women, Genders, and Sexualities
2024-2027
Member
Merit and Performance Advisory Committee
2024-2027
Officer
Executive Committee of the Coordinating Council for Women in History
2021-2026