Faculty, Staff and  Students

Director, Assistant Professor Lisa Arellano (Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and American Studies)
Lisa Arellano holds a Ph.D. in Modern Thought and Literature from Stanford University. She is currently completing a book manuscript on lynching and vigilantism in the United States between 1830 and the present as well as starting the research for her next project on gender and violence.  Her research and teaching interests include critical historiography and narrative analysis, gender and sexuality studies, and comparative ethnic studies.

Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellow Brooke Campbell
Brooke M. Campbell holds a B.A. in Literature from American University and a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Emory University. She has taught such courses as “sexandthecity.org,” “Literary Gender Bending and Blending,” “Turning Pages, Turning Tricks: Writing/Sex/Work,” “Race, Gender, and Popular Culture,” and “Written Out of Wedlock: Living in Sin in the Nineteenth Century.” Her general research interests include interdisciplinary, intersectional, and transnational approaches to sex work/prostitution; information and communications technology (ICT); transnational feminist theory; feminist legal theory; queer theory; critical race theory; and capitalism. Dr. Campbell has been awarded fellowships by the American Association of University Women (AAUW), the Northeast Consortium for Faculty Diversity, the Center for Humanistic Inquiry, the Tinker Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Humanities, and has presented her work for the CUNY Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies (CLAGS) Colloquium Series, the Feminism and Legal Theory Project, and the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, among other fora. Her dissertation, “Woman” for Sale: Feminism, Queer Theory, and the Question of Sex Work, is winner of the 2008 Lore Metzger Prize, awarded to the best dissertation addressing literary and social issues in Comparative Literature, English, and Women’s Studies. Dr. Campbell comes to Colby from the University of Georgia, where she held the Franklin Postdoctoral Fellowship in Women’s Studies.

Professor Elizabeth Leonard (History) (on sabbatical Fall 2009 -- Spring 2010)
Half of the courses that Elizabeth Leonard teaches deal with different aspects of American women's history, beginning with European settlement in the 1600s, and extending to the present. As a scholar, she has published two books of her own research on the subject of women's roles in the American Civil War, and the war's impact on women's experience: Yankee Women: Gender Battles in the Civil War (1994) and All the Daring of the Soldier: Women of the Civil War Armies (1999). She also annotated and wrote a new introduction for a reprint of Sarah Emma Edmonds's 1864 memoir of her life as a soldier in the Union army: Soldier, Nurse, and Spy (1999), and she has also published an article on the significance of gender in the trial of Mary Surratt, convicted of involvement in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, and another article providing an overview of how studying women in the Civil War transforms our understanding of that crucial event. 
WGSS Coordinating Committee Members 09 -- 10


Program Faculty for Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Program Staff for Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

Majors and Minors in Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

Majors:
 Emma Anastos-Wallen '11
Cynia Barnwell '11
Simran Jaising '12
Qainat Khan '11
Sarena Maron-Kolitch '10
Heather Pratt '11
Amy Weston '10

Minors:
 Karlyn Adler '11
Margot Apothaker '11
Katherine Brezinski '11
Caitlin C. Briody '11
Leigh Bullion '10
Jessica Bushee '11
Nikole Busmanis '11
Hali Castleman '11
Daniele Crocheire '09
Natasha DeSherbinin '11
Amy Dunlap '11
Veronica Foster '12
Sarah Hansen '12
Grant Patch '12
Maya Steward '10

 

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