Helen Boyd Kramer teaches Gender Studies 100 and several courses focusing on transgender issues. She is the author of My Husband Betty (Thunder’s Mouth Press, 2003) and She’s Not the Man I Married (Seal Press, 2007). You can find her online at http://www.myhusbandbetty.com

Siobhan Brooks is the Lawrence Fellow in Gender Studies for 2008-2009. She recently received her Ph.D. in Sociology from the New School. Her interests include gender, race, and class stratification, focusing on erotic capital in the sex industry. She is nationally known as a writer and speaker on labor issues in the sex industry and was featured in the documentary film Live Nude Girls Unite!, which examined the campaign for unionization at the Lusty Lady Theater. Her writing has appeared in the anthologies Without a Net: The Female Experience of Growing Up Working-Class (Seal, 2004), Colonize This! Young Women of Color on Today’s Feminism (Seal, 2002), and Feminism and Anti-Racism: International Struggles for Justice (NYU, 2001), as well as numerous journals and magazines.

Carla N. Daughtry says, "‘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, Daughtry earned master's degrees from both the Department of Middle East and North African Studies and the Department of Anthropology as well as a Ph.D. in Cultural Anthropology. Her 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, she teaches 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.

Alison Guenther-Pal is the Lawrence Fellow in German and Gender Studies. She grew up and went to college in California where taking "Intoduction to Feminism" with Bettina Aptheker opened her mind to an entirely new way of thinking about the world. She did her Ph.D. work on homosexuality in 1950s West Germany at the University of Minnesota in German and Feminist Studies (minor). Alison has taught in Film Studies, Gender Studies, and German and she is interested in 20th century German culture, queer theory, feminist film theory, LGBT cinema, and critical pedagogy.

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 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.

Brenda Jenike is a cultural anthropologist specializing in East Asia. Her research and teaching examines gender and family issues, particularly those related to aging and the elderly.

Ed Kern is a historian of early modern Europe. He has teaching and research interests in witchcraft, gender and religious culture, and has published widely on Harry Potter, including his 2003 book, The Wisdom of Harry Potter: What Our Favorite Hero Teaches Us About Moral Choices (Prometheus, 2003).

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 (Books International, 1997). It reappeared in his book History, Fiction and Germany: Writing the Nineteenth-Century Nation, published in 2005 by Wayne State University Press.

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 Foxesand A View From the Bridge. Privatt's work encompasses gender and diversity issues as manifested in the theatre.

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. Her article “Sir William Drummond Stewart: Aristocratic Masculinity in the American West” recently appeared in the Pacific Historical Review. She is completing a book about transatlantic discourses of masculinity in the nineteenth century. She teaches classes in American women’s history,has supervised independent student research projects on topics such as the Lowell mill workers and cross-dressing in modern China, and also teaches in the Environmental Studies program.

Judy Sarnecki 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" was 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. Her book Triumphant Bodies: Sexual Political Conquest in Women’s Published Writing, 1660-1763 was published in 2007 by Cambridge Scholars Press.

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.