Carla N. Daughtry "When did you first realize that you were a woman?" That was the basic but mind blowing question a professor asked us students on the first day of her gender class at Mount Holyoke College, where I earned my B.A. in International Relations with a focus on the Middle East. At the University of Michigan--Ann Arbor, I earned master's degrees from both the Department of Middle East and North African Studies and the Department of Anthropology, developing my interests in gender and ethnicity in specifically North African societies. Currently, I am completing a Ph.D. in Cultural Anthropology, also at University of Michigan. My doctoral research on southern Sudanese (East African) refugee communities in Cairo, Egypt involved fieldwork with a women's income-generation cooperative. Here at Lawrence University, I teach Introduction to Gender Studies 100 and Women and Men in Cross-Cultural Perspective 350, as well as courses in Ethnic Studies and Anthropology.

Terry Gottfried, a cognitive psychologist, has been involved in the Gender Studies program at Lawrence since its beginning, and has co-taught the introductory course many times. He likes the field of gender studies because it emphasizes an interdisciplinary approach to understanding our natural and social world. His areas of research are in speech science, second language learning, and music perception. He also has an abiding interest in gender analysis, especially with respect to gender differences in the structure and use of language and the history of psychological research in gender differences.

Beth Haines is a developmental psychologist with research interests in children’s thinking and social development. She enjoys teaching the introductory Gender Studies course, a course on the Psychology of Gender, and an advanced seminar on gender and social development. She is particularly interested in children’s conceptualizations of gender roles and sexuality, and in the development of gender identity.

Karen Hoffmann, assistant professor of English, teaches courses in twentieth-century American and British literature and African-American literature. Her research focuses on first-person modernist novels that explore crossings of identity categories, particularly of race and gender. She offers a course on Gender and Modernist British and American Literature, which is cross-listed in English and Gender Studies. She has served on the Gender Studies Steering Board since 1999.

Eilene Hoft-March has participated in Gender Studies since the program's early days. She teaches the occasional core course in GS and is always happy to infuse the French curriculum with gender issues. Her research on recent and contemporary French autobiography has led her to focus on how writers have come to terms with gender, death, and identity. Favorite women authors she has written on range from early second wave feminists such as Simone de Beauvoir to more contemporary writers such as Hélène Cixous.

Brent Peterson teaches a variety of courses related to German literature and culture, and he is a long term member of Women in German. His article "The Fatherland's Kiss of Death: Gender and German in Nineteenth-Century Historical Fiction" appeared in Patricia Herminghouse and Magda Mueller, eds. Gender and Germanness: Cultural Productions of Nation. It reappeared in his book History, Fiction and Germany: Writing the Nineteenth-Century Nation, published in 2005.

Megan Pickett received a BA in Physics from Cornell University, and her MA and PhD Astrophysics Indiana University, worked at NASA Ames Research Center from 1995-1999, then taught at Valparaiso University and Purdue University Calumet until 2006. Her research interests include star and planet formation. Megan is interested in the history of women in the physical sciences, transgender rights and protections, and transgender narratives.

Kathy Privatt teaches acting, theatre literature/history, and dramatic theory at Lawrence University. Recent productions she has directed include The Little Foxes, 3 Shaw One-Acts, and A View From the Bridge. Privatt's work encompasses gender and diversity issues as manifested in the theatre: Her production of The Little Foxes was paired with panel discussions on power-brokering through gender and race, her dramatic theory class includes units on canon-formation.

Monica Rico grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area and received her B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. She came to Lawrence in 2001, and says that collaborating with Gender Studies faculty and teaching the wonderful students in Gender Studies has taken the edge off of the Midwestern winters. Her research investigates the links between our constructions of gender and our constructions of the natural world. She teaches classes in American women’s history and has supervised independent student research projects on topics such as the Lowell mill workers and cross-dressing in modern China

Judy Sarnecki, Associate Professor of French, came to Lawrence in 1990. She specializes in twentieth century French literature with a focus on narrative, gender, cinema, and popular culture.She teaches all levels of French, and has served on the Gender Studies Steering Committee since 1993. She chaired the committee that earned Gender Studies an NEH/NSF grant in the mid-1990s. She has published articles on Marguerite Yourcenar and Aimé Césaire and edited an anthology of articles on Yourcenar's texts. In addition, she has a nascent interest in tattoos. Her article "Trauma and Tattoo" will be published in The Journal of Consciousness in February, 2002.

Emily Bowles-Smith specializes in women's writing before 1800, feminist literary theory, and feminist theory. She teaches core courses in Gender Studies as well as Women's Literary History, and she has directed tutorials and independent study projects on Virginia Woolf, disability and deformity, feminist literary theory, and Aphra Behn.

Tim Spurgin was born in Michigan, went to college in Minnesota, and did his graduate work in Virginia. His home base is in the English department, but he likes to teach the introductory Gender Studies course on a regular basis. "Gender Studies is a perfect place for anyone with a wide range of interests," he says."You're always learning new things and making new connections." He loves the novels of Charles Dickens, George Eliot, and Virginia Woolf; the music of Elvis Costello and Elvis Presley; and the films of Alfred Hitchcock, Preston Sturges, and Howard Hawks.

Dirck Vorenkamp has a Ph.D. in Buddhist Studies and is interested in the intellectual history of Asian religious traditions. His focus on textual analysis led to an interest in the way religious texts doctrinally construct gender. His RLST 360: Women in Asian Religions course investigates various relationships between metaphysics and social norms in selected texts' views of gender.

Nancy Wall (Presbyterian College, B.S., University of South Carolina, M.A., Vanderbilt University, Ph.D.) is a developmental biologist. She teaches Human Reproduction and contributes to the Introduction to Gender Studies course.