Heather Haley

Heather M. Haley is a historian for the Naval History and Heritage Command at the Washington Navy Yard. A social historian of the Cold War U.S. Navy, Dr. Haley is the author of the forthcoming book from Cornell University Press titled Queer in the Cold War in which she traces the concurrent civil lawsuits brought against military department secretaries by queer personnel in the early-to-mid-1970s. She is an active member of a number of the SECNAV LGBTQ+ Advisory Board, which endeavors to advance equality, safety, and inclusivity in the modern U.S. Navy.