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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 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.

Professor Teresa Arendell (Sociology and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies)    

Teresa Arendell studies and writes and teaches about gender and sexualities   and their extensive intertwining; feminist theory and methodologies; contemporary lives of families, including an emphasis on changing family structures and parenting styles; and methodological approaches to the study of human behavior and the construction of meaning.  She has published various articles and three books:  Mothers and Divorce:  Legal, Economic, and Social Dilemmas; Contemporary Parenting: Challenges and Issues.  A work in progress is Midlife Women Choosing Women:  Not an Ordinary Love Story.  She currently is engaged in study of social, cultural, and psychological theories of the self and the place of narrative in the construction of self.  Her home department at Colby is Sociology. 

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 2004. Her scholarship focuses on lynching and vigilantism in the United States between 1830 and the present within the context of a broader examination of the relationship between identity politics and cultural history. Her larger research and teaching interests include critical historiography and narrative analysis, gender and sexuality studies, and comparative ethnic studies.

WGSS Coordinating Committee Members

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:
Elizabeth Doran '09
Cary Finnegan '09
Ashlee Holm '09
Phoebe Larkin '08J
Patrick Sanders '08
Laura Webb '08
Caitlin Wyman '10

Minors:
Leigh Bullion '10
Erica Ciszek '08
Julia Coffin '09
Danielle Crochiere '09
Carolyn Curtis '08
Katherine B. Dammann '09
Allyson Felser '09
Melanie Larsen '08
Vilmarys Pichardo '10
Naomi Smith '09
Maya Steward '10
Abby Sussman '09
Lindsay Tolle '08