Nick Okrent
Nick is responsible for selecting material in all formats and providing instructional assistance in support of the fields of Africana Studies, Philosophy, U.S. History, World History, and general Humanities. He serves with the other coordinating bibliographers to advise on collections-related planning and policy. Nick also represents the Libraries on the Bookstore Advisory Committee, and coordinates outreach and services for the USC Shoah Foundation Visual History Archive. Prior to coming to Penn, Nick worked at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the New York Historical Society. Nick has a Master's degree in Library Science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, a Master of Philosophy and Master of Arts in Philosophy from Columbia University, and a Bachelor's degree in Philosophy from Haverford College.
Sex & Sexuality is a collection of primary source materials which explore changing attitudes towards human sexuality, gender identities and sexual behaviors throughout the twentieth century. This unique collaboration with the Kinsey Institute Library and Special Collections presents correspondence, research papers and records spanning the tenures of the first three Institute directors; Dr Alfred C. Kinsey (1947-1956), Dr Paul H. Gebhard (1956-1982) and Dr June Reinisch (1982-1993).
Subcollections include the correspondence of the directors and other sexologists associated with the Kinsey Institute, annual reports and administrative records of the Kinsey Institute and the Society for the Scientific Study of Sex, a run of the Kinsey Report newspaper column and research and correspondence related to it. Also included are questionnaires, surveys, statistical summaries and research reports about human sexuality that reflect early efforts to consider it scientifically.
