At the University of California Santa Barbara:
Joseph Mann, “’Making a Scene:’ Race, Class, and Sexuality in Cape Town,” 2017. Mann published a revised version of his MA thesis in Sexualities, and was the first graduate student in the department to teach an online course. He has taught at the University of Kentucky and is currently employed at Bluegrass Community and Technical College.
Heather Berg, “Porn Work: Adult Film at the Point of Production,” 2016. Berg has published in Signs, Feminist Studies, and a number of other journals, and won the Feminist Studies prize for the best article manuscript by a graduate student. She has a book forthcoming from the University of North Carolina Press. She is currently a lecturer in gender and women’s studies at the University of Southern California.
Shannon Weber, "LGBT Students at New England Women's Collleges: Sexual Fields, Erotic Capital, and the Cultivation of Sexual and Gendered Possibilities," 2014. Weber has published in Sexualities and the Journal of Homosexuality. She was a visiting lecturer at Wellesley College and is currently an independent scholar.
Carly Thomsen, “Unbecoming: Visibility Politics and Queer Rurality,” 2014. Thomsen has published in Feminist Studies and Hypatia and is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for the Study of Women, Gender, and Sexuality at Rice University. She won the Lancaster Award for the best dissertation in the social sciences, as well as campus-wide teaching and service awards. She is an assistant professor at Middlebury College.
Sharon Doetsch-Kidder (co-chair with Shirley Lim), “The Spirit of Social Change:: Love, Faith, and Joy in Intersectional Activism,” Department of English, UCSB, 2009. Doetsch-Kidder is the author of Social Change and Intersectional Activism: The Spirit of Social Movement.
Carolyn Herbst Lewis, “Coitus Perfectus: The Medicalization of Heterosexuality in the Mid-20th Century United States,” Department of History, UCSB, 2007. Lewis is Associate Professor of history and chair of Gender, Women's, and Sexuality Studies at Grinnell College and the author of Prescription for Heterosexuality: Sexual Citizenship in the Cold War Era.
At The Ohio State University:
Stephanie Gilmore, “Rethinking the Liberal/Radical Divide: The National Organization for Women in Memphis, Columbus, and San Francisco,” 2005. Gilmore is an independent scholar and the author of Groundswell: Grassroots Feminist Activism in Postwar America and the editor of Feminist Coalitions: Historical Perspectives on Second-Wave Feminism in the United States. She is an independent scholar, lecturer, and activist.
Basia Nowak, “Serving Women and the State: The League of Women in Communist Poland,” 2004. Nowak has taught at Ohio State University and works as a freelance editor.
Renée Lansley, “College Women or College Girls? Gender, Sexuality, and In Loco Parentis on Campus,” 2004. Lansley is an adjunct lecturer at Framingham State University.
Charlotte Weber, “Making Common Cause? Western and Middle Eastern Feminists in the International Women’s Movement, 1911-1948,” 2003. Weber works as a freelance editor.
Heather Miller, “The Teeming Brothel: Sex Acts, Desires, and Sexual Identities in the United States, 1870-1940,” 2002. Miller works for Historical Research Associates in Seattle.
Susan Freeman, “Making Sense of Sex: Adolescent Girls and Sex Education in the United States, 1940-1960,” 2002. Freeman is Associate Professor and Chair of Gender and Women’s Studies at Western Michigan University. She is the author of Sex Goes to School: Girls and Sex Education before the 1960s.
E. Sue Wamsley, "A Hemisphere of Women: Latin American and U.S. Women in the Interamerican Commission of Women, 1928‑1938," 1998. Wamsley is Associate Professor at Kent State University-Salem.
Karen Kriebl, "From Bloomers to Flappers: The American Women's Dress Reform Movement, 1840‑1920," 1998. Kriebl held a visiting position at Capitol University.
Marilyn Hegarty, “Patriots, Prostitutes, Patriotutes: The Mobilization and Control of Female Sexuality in the U.S. during World War II,” 1998. Hegarty is the author of Victory girls, Khaki-Wackies, and Patriotutes: The Regulation of Female Sexuality During World War II.
Cynthia Wilkey, "Womoon Rising: Feminist Spirituality and its Impact on the Modern Women's Movement in the United States," 1997. Wilkey is Associate Professor at the University of Virginia’s College at Wise.
Penny Messinger, "Leading the Field of Mountain Work: The Conference of Southern Mountain Workers, 1913‑1950," 1997. Messinger is Associate Professor at Daemen College.
Virginia Boynton, "`It surely is grand living your own life:' The Search for Autonomy of Urban Midwestern Black and White working‑Class Women, 1920‑1950," 1995. Boynton is Professor at Western Illinois University.
Kathleen Weigand, "Vanguard of Women's Liberation: The Old Left and the Continuity of the Women's Movement in the United States, 1945‑1970s" 1994. Weigand is the author of Red Feminism.
Joyce Rowe, "The `Working Poor:' Single Mothers and the State, 1911‑1970," 1993. Rowe has taught at the University of Texas, the University of Georgia, and the University of Alabama.
Irene Ledesma, "Unlikely Strikers: Mexican‑American Women's Strike Activity in Texas, 1919‑1977," 1992. Ledesma held a position as Assistant Professor of History at the University of Texas‑Pan American before her death in 1997.
Kevin White, "The Flapper's Boyfriend: The Revolution in Morals and the Emergence of Modern American Male Sexuality, 1910‑1930," 1990. White is the author of The First Sexual Revolution and Sexual Liberation or Sexual License? and teaches in England.
Jan Leone, "The Mission of Women's Colleges in an Era of Cultural Revolution, 1890‑1930," 1989. Leone is Professor of History and Interim Dean of the College of Liberal Studies at Middle Tennessee State University.
Shirley Yee, "Black Women Abolitionists: A Study of Gender and Race in the American Anti‑Slavery Movement, 1828‑1860," 1987. Yee is Professor of Gender, Women’s, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Washington. She is currently Professor of Gender, Women’s, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Washington. She published Black Women Abolitionists and An Immigrant Neighborhood: Interethnic and Interracial Encounters in New York before 1930.
M. Christine Anderson, "Gender, Class, and Culture: Women Secretarial and Clerical Workers in the United States, 1925‑1955," 1986. Anderson is Associate Professor of History and Gender and Diversity Studies at Xavier University in Cincinnati.
Mary Rhodes, "Dried Flowers: The History of Women's Culture at Cottey College, 1884‑1965," 1981. Rhodes served as a dean at Cottey College.
Frances Hensley, "Change and Continuity in the American Woman's Movement, 1848‑1930: A National and State Perspective," 1981. Hensley is Professor of History and Dean at Marshall University, Huntington, West Virginia.
Joseph Mann, “’Making a Scene:’ Race, Class, and Sexuality in Cape Town,” 2017. Mann published a revised version of his MA thesis in Sexualities, and was the first graduate student in the department to teach an online course. He has taught at the University of Kentucky and is currently employed at Bluegrass Community and Technical College.
Heather Berg, “Porn Work: Adult Film at the Point of Production,” 2016. Berg has published in Signs, Feminist Studies, and a number of other journals, and won the Feminist Studies prize for the best article manuscript by a graduate student. She has a book forthcoming from the University of North Carolina Press. She is currently a lecturer in gender and women’s studies at the University of Southern California.
Shannon Weber, "LGBT Students at New England Women's Collleges: Sexual Fields, Erotic Capital, and the Cultivation of Sexual and Gendered Possibilities," 2014. Weber has published in Sexualities and the Journal of Homosexuality. She was a visiting lecturer at Wellesley College and is currently an independent scholar.
Carly Thomsen, “Unbecoming: Visibility Politics and Queer Rurality,” 2014. Thomsen has published in Feminist Studies and Hypatia and is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for the Study of Women, Gender, and Sexuality at Rice University. She won the Lancaster Award for the best dissertation in the social sciences, as well as campus-wide teaching and service awards. She is an assistant professor at Middlebury College.
Sharon Doetsch-Kidder (co-chair with Shirley Lim), “The Spirit of Social Change:: Love, Faith, and Joy in Intersectional Activism,” Department of English, UCSB, 2009. Doetsch-Kidder is the author of Social Change and Intersectional Activism: The Spirit of Social Movement.
Carolyn Herbst Lewis, “Coitus Perfectus: The Medicalization of Heterosexuality in the Mid-20th Century United States,” Department of History, UCSB, 2007. Lewis is Associate Professor of history and chair of Gender, Women's, and Sexuality Studies at Grinnell College and the author of Prescription for Heterosexuality: Sexual Citizenship in the Cold War Era.
At The Ohio State University:
Stephanie Gilmore, “Rethinking the Liberal/Radical Divide: The National Organization for Women in Memphis, Columbus, and San Francisco,” 2005. Gilmore is an independent scholar and the author of Groundswell: Grassroots Feminist Activism in Postwar America and the editor of Feminist Coalitions: Historical Perspectives on Second-Wave Feminism in the United States. She is an independent scholar, lecturer, and activist.
Basia Nowak, “Serving Women and the State: The League of Women in Communist Poland,” 2004. Nowak has taught at Ohio State University and works as a freelance editor.
Renée Lansley, “College Women or College Girls? Gender, Sexuality, and In Loco Parentis on Campus,” 2004. Lansley is an adjunct lecturer at Framingham State University.
Charlotte Weber, “Making Common Cause? Western and Middle Eastern Feminists in the International Women’s Movement, 1911-1948,” 2003. Weber works as a freelance editor.
Heather Miller, “The Teeming Brothel: Sex Acts, Desires, and Sexual Identities in the United States, 1870-1940,” 2002. Miller works for Historical Research Associates in Seattle.
Susan Freeman, “Making Sense of Sex: Adolescent Girls and Sex Education in the United States, 1940-1960,” 2002. Freeman is Associate Professor and Chair of Gender and Women’s Studies at Western Michigan University. She is the author of Sex Goes to School: Girls and Sex Education before the 1960s.
E. Sue Wamsley, "A Hemisphere of Women: Latin American and U.S. Women in the Interamerican Commission of Women, 1928‑1938," 1998. Wamsley is Associate Professor at Kent State University-Salem.
Karen Kriebl, "From Bloomers to Flappers: The American Women's Dress Reform Movement, 1840‑1920," 1998. Kriebl held a visiting position at Capitol University.
Marilyn Hegarty, “Patriots, Prostitutes, Patriotutes: The Mobilization and Control of Female Sexuality in the U.S. during World War II,” 1998. Hegarty is the author of Victory girls, Khaki-Wackies, and Patriotutes: The Regulation of Female Sexuality During World War II.
Cynthia Wilkey, "Womoon Rising: Feminist Spirituality and its Impact on the Modern Women's Movement in the United States," 1997. Wilkey is Associate Professor at the University of Virginia’s College at Wise.
Penny Messinger, "Leading the Field of Mountain Work: The Conference of Southern Mountain Workers, 1913‑1950," 1997. Messinger is Associate Professor at Daemen College.
Virginia Boynton, "`It surely is grand living your own life:' The Search for Autonomy of Urban Midwestern Black and White working‑Class Women, 1920‑1950," 1995. Boynton is Professor at Western Illinois University.
Kathleen Weigand, "Vanguard of Women's Liberation: The Old Left and the Continuity of the Women's Movement in the United States, 1945‑1970s" 1994. Weigand is the author of Red Feminism.
Joyce Rowe, "The `Working Poor:' Single Mothers and the State, 1911‑1970," 1993. Rowe has taught at the University of Texas, the University of Georgia, and the University of Alabama.
Irene Ledesma, "Unlikely Strikers: Mexican‑American Women's Strike Activity in Texas, 1919‑1977," 1992. Ledesma held a position as Assistant Professor of History at the University of Texas‑Pan American before her death in 1997.
Kevin White, "The Flapper's Boyfriend: The Revolution in Morals and the Emergence of Modern American Male Sexuality, 1910‑1930," 1990. White is the author of The First Sexual Revolution and Sexual Liberation or Sexual License? and teaches in England.
Jan Leone, "The Mission of Women's Colleges in an Era of Cultural Revolution, 1890‑1930," 1989. Leone is Professor of History and Interim Dean of the College of Liberal Studies at Middle Tennessee State University.
Shirley Yee, "Black Women Abolitionists: A Study of Gender and Race in the American Anti‑Slavery Movement, 1828‑1860," 1987. Yee is Professor of Gender, Women’s, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Washington. She is currently Professor of Gender, Women’s, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Washington. She published Black Women Abolitionists and An Immigrant Neighborhood: Interethnic and Interracial Encounters in New York before 1930.
M. Christine Anderson, "Gender, Class, and Culture: Women Secretarial and Clerical Workers in the United States, 1925‑1955," 1986. Anderson is Associate Professor of History and Gender and Diversity Studies at Xavier University in Cincinnati.
Mary Rhodes, "Dried Flowers: The History of Women's Culture at Cottey College, 1884‑1965," 1981. Rhodes served as a dean at Cottey College.
Frances Hensley, "Change and Continuity in the American Woman's Movement, 1848‑1930: A National and State Perspective," 1981. Hensley is Professor of History and Dean at Marshall University, Huntington, West Virginia.