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Faculty, Staff, & Student Appointments in W G S S:

  • Director, Professor Elizabeth Leonard (History)

    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 recently (2002) published an article on the significance of gender in the trial of Mary Surratt, convicted of involvement in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.

  • Professor Lyn Mikel Brown (Women's, Gender, & Sexuality Studies and Education)

    Lyn Mikel Brown teaches and writes about girls' psychological and social development and the culture of schooling. She has published numerous journal articles and book chapters and is co-author (with Carol Gilligan) of Meeting at the Crossroads: Women's Psychology and Girls' Development and author of Raising Their Voices: The Politics of Girls' Anger. Currently she is writing a book about the dark underside of girls' peer relations. She is faculty sponsor of the Women's Group.

  • Visiting Assistant Professor Lisa Arellano (Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and American Studies)

    Lisa Arellano completed her Ph. D in Modern Thought and Literature at Stanford University in June 2004. Her scholarship focuses on lynching and vigilantism in the United States between 1830 and the present; and on the contemporary practice of historical reenactment, bringing together debates within queer scholarship about the function of history, time and kinship in constituting queer communities with longer-standing debates within race and ethnicity scholarship regarding the role of public history and memorial within communities of color.

WGSS Coordinating Committee Members

Program Faculty for Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies:
  • Lisa Arellano, ((Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and American Studies)
  • Pam Blake (Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies)
  • Heidi Kim (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:
Sasha Aronson '08
Sarah Belden '06
Allison Cole '07
Carolyn Curtis '08
Madeline Horwitz '06
Phoebe Larkin '08J
Jennifer Radcliffe '06
Patrick Sanders '08
Genevieve Schanoes '06
Amanda Vickerson '07
Laura Webb '08
Minors:
Chelsea Downs '06
Casey Dunton '06
Julie Hike '07
Jenna Morrison '06
Jessica Seymour '06
Lindsay Tolle '08
Elizabeth Wyckoff '06

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