Gender Studies Faculty

Interests: Ethics (with an emphasis on Kant), Moral Psychology

Who am I?
I'm a retired professor of modern European history with a special interest in the history of ideas and in how film relates to history. I taught at Lawrence University from 1985 to 2022 during which time I won two teaching awards.

Sigma Colón holds a joint appointment in Environmental Studies and Ethnic Studies. She has a PhD in American Studies from Yale University and an MA in History and BA in English literature and Spanish from the University of Arizona.

As a cultural anthropologist, I teach and research Middle East and North African societies; migration, immigration and globalization; race, ethnicity and gender across cultures; anthropology of food and food justice movements; ethnography of space and place; and cultural research methods.

Alison Guenther-Pal is chair of German Studies and affiliated faculty in Film Studies and Gender Studies. Like the students at Lawrence University, she is "multi-interested," but her main topics of inquiry are otherness and alterity.

I am joyfully making theatre at Lawrence by teaching acting, theatre literature and history, and directing departmental productions.  A certified Alexander Movement Technique (AT) teacher, I also teach AT workshops and courses at LU and across the country.  An ac

Marcy Quiason, Ph.D. (she/her) is an Assistant Professor of Gender Studies at Lawrence University. Marcy’s research focuses on the ways that universities, NGOs, and non-profit organizations negotiate political and economic systems that constrain and empower their work.

Monica Rico specializes in the history of early and nineteenth-century America. Her interests include transatlantic history, the American West, gender and environmental history.

Jesús Gregorio Smith is an Associate Professor and chair of the Ethnic Studies Program as well as an Associated Colleges of the Midwest (ACM) Andrew W. Mellon Fellow.

Brigid E. Vance's research focuses on the intellectual and cultural history of dreams and dream divination in late Ming China.

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