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Elizabeth Reis, Mentor
Women's and Gender Studies

Jenette Eccleston, McNair Scholar

Elizabeth Reis, Assistant Professor of Women's and Gender Studies, received her Ph.D. in history from the University of California at Berkeley in 1991. She held an adjunct position at the UO from 1990 until 2002, when she received a formal appointment to the Women's and Gender Studies Program. Her interests focus on the history of sexuality, women and religion, and women in early America. In 2004, she received the Ersted Award for Distinguished Teaching at the UO. Her publications include Damned Women: Sinners and Witches in Puritan New England (Cornell University Press, 1997); "Immortal Messengers," in Andrew Burstein and Nancy Isenberg, Mortal Remains: Explaining Death in Early America (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002); "Teaching Transgender History, Identity, and Politics," in Radical History Review (2004); and Impossible Hermaphrodites (in progress, Johns Hopkins University Press).