David Serlin is an associate professor of communication at the University of California at San Diego. He has served as a historical consultant for the History Channel, the National Building Museum, the National Institutes of Health, PBS, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the Smithsonian. He is the author of Replaceable You: Engineering the Body in Postwar America (University of Chicago Press, 2004) and the author and/or editor of many other publications. He sits on the Board of Directors of the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies (CLAGS) at the Graduate Center, City University of New York, and is a member of the editorial collective for the Radical History Review.