Chair(s)
Nancy A. Wall (she/her/hers)
Nancy Wall is currently serving as Associate Provost (2022-present) and the institution's Accreditation Liaison Officer (ALO) to the Higher Learning Commission (HLC).
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Ingrid V. Albrecht
Interests: Ethics (with an emphasis on Kant), Moral Psychology
Celia B. Barnes (she/her/hers)
Elizabeth Carlson
Sigma Colon
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.
Carla Daughtry
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
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Alison C. Guenther-Pal (she//sie)
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.
Julie McQuinn (she/her/hers)
Kathy Privatt (She/Her/Hers)
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 (She/her)
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 (she/her)
Monica Rico specializes in the history of early and nineteenth-century America. Her interests include transatlantic history, the American West, gender and environmental history.
Jesus G. Smith (He, Him, His)
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 (she, her, hers)
Brigid E. Vance's research focuses on the intellectual and cultural history of dreams and dream divination in late Ming China.
Angela M. Vanden Elzen (she/her/hers)
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