THE 2017 BOYD-LUBKER VISITING SCHOLARS PROGRAM
Dr. Pliley is widely recognized as a leading scholar of sex trafficking in the early twentieth century. She is the author of Policing Sexuality: The Mann Act and the Making of the FBI (Harvard University Press) and co-editor of Global Anti- Vice Activism: Fighting Drinks, Drugs, and ‘Immorality,’ 1870-1940 (Cambridge University Press). Dr. Pliley is a Fulbright Specialist Scholar on U.S. and international anti-sex trafficking social movements and law enforcement, 1890s- 1940s, and was the inaugural Modern Day Slavery and Human Trafficking Fellow at the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at Yale University (2012-2013).