Gender Studies Faculty

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

I teach courses in Restoration and eighteenth-century British literature.

As an Arabic-speaking and Italian-speaking cultural anthropologist, I teach what I research academically— society and cultures in the Middle East and Africa, the impact of migration and globalization on cultures, the anthropology of food, sex/gender/sexuality systems acros

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 active membe

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.

Contact Angela with questions about: The Lawrence University Makerspace, reference assistance, game studies, library website, social media

Academic Interests: Video games, video game history, game culture & identity; makerspace instruction and inclusion; library access and equity