Director: Rishona Zimring

Administrative Coordinator: Lisa Wilson

Lewis & Clark’s Gender Studies Program has received national recognition. Begun in 1985, the program was the first of its kind in the country. It offers an interdisciplinary minor, identifies resources, gathers information, sponsors an annual symposium, and serves as a catalyst for change.

In keeping with Lewis & Clark’s commitment to gender issues and gender balance, gender studies is integrated into the curriculum. Program faculty members are housed in departments across the campus, and students combine the minor with widely varying majors.

The Minor Program

The interdisciplinary minor in gender studies examines the relationship between gender and social inequality, explores the construction of gender and sexuality, and analyzes the variations in gender systems that have occurred across cultures and over time. It illuminates the images of femininity and masculinity that shape cultural representations and explores gender through artistic expression. Courses take gender as a subject of focus and investigate how gender interacts with race, class, and culture. Lewis & Clark’s internationalized curriculum and overseas study programs make it possible for students to examine the intersections of gender, race, and class in a variety of cultures. Finally, the minor engages students in the political and philosophical exploration of strategies for transforming coercive and unequal gender systems and enhancing individual choice and our common humanity.

Minor Requirements

A minimum of 24 semester credits, distributed as follows:

• GEND 200 Gender and Sexuality in U.S. Society

• GEND 300 Gender and Aesthetic Expression

• GEND 440 Feminist Theory

• GEND 231 Genders and Sexualities in Global Perspective or an approved alternative chosen from the following courses:

  ENG 319	Postcolonial Literature: Anglophone Africa, India, Caribbean
  SOAN 261	Gender and Sexuality in Latin America
  SOAN 266	Social Change in Latin America
  SOAN 285	Culture and Power in the Middle East

• 8 additional semester credits selected from the following list of approved electives. 

Art

ART 113

Sculpture I

Classics

CLAS 324

Roman Women

English

ENG 100	Introductory Topics in Literature (when topic is related)
ENG 125	Jane Austen
ENG 235	Topics in Literature (when topic is related)
ENG 240	The Brontës: Legends and Legacies
ENG 243	Women Writers
ENG 258	Women and Film
ENG 314	Romanticism in the Age of Revolution
ENG 315	The Victorians: Heroes, Decadents, and Madwomen
ENG 319	Postcolonial Literature: Anglophone Africa, India, Caribbean
ENG 333	Major Figures (when topic is related)
ENG 334	Special Topics in Literature (when topic is related)
ENG 450	Senior Seminar (when topic is related)

Ethnic Studies

ETHS 200

Introduction to Ethnic Studies

French

FREN 330	Francophone Literature
FREN 350	Topics in French and Francophone Literature (when the topic is gender and identity in 19th-century France)

Gender Studies

GEND 345	Gender Studies Symposium Chair
GEND 445	Gender Theory and Praxis

German

GERM 230

German Literature in Translation (when topic is related)

History

HIST 231A	U.S. Women's History, 1600 to 1980
HIST 240	Race and Ethnicity in the United States
HIST 311	History of Family, Gender, and Sexuality in China
HIST 331	American Culture and Society: 1880 to 1980
HIST 345	Race and Nation in Latin America

Overseas Programs

IS 217

Gender and Society in Morocco

Psychology

PSY 230	Infant and Child Development
PSY 260	Social Psychology
PSY 330	Adolescent and Adult Development
PSY 360	Psychology of Gender

Religious Studies

RELS 335	Gender, Sex, Jews, and Christians: Ancient World
RELS 340	Gender in American Religious History
RELS 357	Family, Gender, and Religion: Ethnographic Approaches

Rhetoric and Media Studies

RHMS 332	Rhetoric of Gender in Relationships
RHMS 352	Gender in Public Rhetoric and Media
RHMS 375	Queer Film and Television
RHMS 406	Race, Rhetoric, and Resistance
RHMS 431	Feminist Discourse Analysis

Sociology and Anthropology

SOAN 225	Race and Ethnicity in Global Perspective
SOAN 236	Reproductive Justice: Bodies, Health, and Society
SOAN 255	Medicine, Healing, and Culture
SOAN 261	Gender and Sexuality in Latin America
SOAN 262	Gender and Sexuality in South Asia
SOAN 266	Social Change in Latin America
SOAN 285	Culture and Power in the Middle East
SOAN 309	Labors of Love
SOAN 324	Anthropology of Violence
SOAN 334	Anthropology of Suffering
SOAN 390	Cyborg Anthropology
SOAN 393	Affect Theory and Feminist Inquiry
SOAN 395	Anthropology of the Body

 Theatre

TH 106	Fundamentals of Movement
TH 108	Contemporary Dance Technique

At least 16 semester credits must be exclusive to the minor (may not be used in any other set of major or minor requirements). In addition, at least four of the courses for the minor must be taken at Lewis & Clark. No more than 4 semester credits of internship (courses numbered 244 or 444) may be applied to the minor.

Faculty

Katharina Altpeter-Jones. Associate professor of German. German, Medieval and Early Modern German Literature, Women Writers. PhD 2003 Duke University. MA 1995 Bayerische Julius-Maximilians-Universität, Würzburg, Germany.

Therese Augst. Associate professor of German and department chair. German, German Literature and Culture of the 18th through 20th Centuries, Intellectual History, Critical Theory. PhD 1997, MA 1992 University of California at Santa Barbara. BA 1989 University of California at Davis.

Sepideh Azarshahri Bajracharya. Assistant professor with term of anthropology. Political culture of violence, communal politics, memory, narrative, urban ethnography, anthropology of space, South Asia. PhD 2008 Harvard University. BA 1999 Wesleyan University.

Andrew Bernstein. Professor of history. Japanese History. PhD 1999, MPhil 1996, MA 1994 Columbia University. BA 1990 Amherst College.

Philippe Brand. Associate professor of French. French, 19th-, 20th-, and 21st-Century French and Francophone Literature and Culture. PhD 2011, MA 2006, BA 1998 University of Colorado at Boulder.

Kimberly Brodkin. Associate professor with term of gender studies and ethnic studies. Gender and politics in the U.S. PhD 2001 Rutgers University. BA 1992 University of Pennsylvania.

Maryann Bylander. Associate professor of sociology. Development and globalization, migration, rural livelihoods, microfinance/credit, environment, gender, qualitative and quantitative research methods. PhD 2012, MA 2006 University of Texas at Austin. BA 2003 Rice University.

Kim Cameron-Dominguez. Assistant professor of anthropology. Race/ethnicity, gender, affect theory, work and mobilities, urban/place-centered ethnography, discourse theory, U.S. and Latin America, Black diasporic populations. PhD 2018, MA 2006 University of California at Santa Cruz. BA 2004 Mount Holyoke College.

David A. Campion. Dr. Robert B. Pamplin Jr. associate professor of history. British and South Asian History. PhD 2002, MA 1997 University of Virginia. BA 1991 Georgetown University.

Mary Clare. Graduate professor of counseling psychology.

Rachel Cole. Associate professor of English. 19th-Century American literature. PhD 2005, MA 2000 Johns Hopkins University. BA 1994 Williams College.

Isabelle DeMarte. Associate professor of French. French, 17th- and 18th-Century French Literature. PhD 1999, MA 1993 Michigan State University. MA 1992 Université Blaise Pascal. BA 1990 Université de la Sorbonne Nouvelle.

Jerusha Detweiler-Bedell. Professor of psychology, director of the health studies program. Clinical and community psychology, health psychology, psychology of gender, internships. PhD 2001, MPhil 1998, MS 1997 Yale University. MA 1995, BA 1995 Stanford University.

Kurt Fosso. Professor of English. British Romantic Literature, Critical Theory, Classical Backgrounds. PhD 1993, MA 1988 University of California at Irvine. BA 1987 University of Washington.

John M. Fritzman. Associate professor of philosophy. 19th- and 20th-Century Continental Philosophy, Ethics, Feminist Theory, Social and Political Philosophy. PhD 1991 Purdue University. BA 1977 Eastern Mennonite University.

Daena J. Goldsmith. Associate dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, professor of rhetoric and media studies. Social media, health communication, gender. PhD 1990, MA 1988 University of Washington. BS 1986 Lewis & Clark College.

Karen Gross. Professor of English. Medieval Literature, Classical Backgrounds. PhD 2005, MA 1999 Stanford University. MPhil 1998 University of Cambridge. BA 1997 University of Southern California.

Andrea Hibbard. Assistant professor with term of English. Victorian Literature and Culture, Law and Literature, Gender Studies. PhD 2000 University of Virginia. MA 1991 Georgetown University. BA 1986 Pomona College.

Reiko Hillyer. Associate professor of history and department chair, director of the ethnic studies program. U.S. South, African American History, History of the Built Environment. PhD 2006, MPhil 2001, MA 1999 Columbia University. BA 1991 Yale University.

Sidra Kamran. Assistant professor of sociology. Gender and Sexuality, Digital Culture, Social Inequality, Qualitative Methods, Sociology of Work, Global Social Theory. PhD 2022, MA 2015 The New School. BS 2011 University of Lahore.

Gordon Kelly. Associate professor with term of humanities, director of the classics program. Latin and Greek Language and Literature, Roman and Greek History. PhD 1999, MA 1993 Bryn Mawr College. BA 1991 Rutgers University. BA 1985 Villanova University.

Melanie E.S. Kohnen. Associate professor of rhetoric and media studies. Digital media, global television. PhD 2010, MA 2002 Brown University. MA, BA 2001 Heinrich-Heine-Universität.

Oren Kosansky. Associate professor of anthropology, director of the Middle East and North African studies program. Political economy of religious experience, postcolonial nationalism and diaspora, textual culture, Morocco. PhD 2003, MA 1994 University of Michigan. MAT 1990 Binghamton University. BA 1988 Brown University.

Robert A. Kugler. Paul S. Wright Professor of Christian Studies. Judeo-Christian Origins, Dead Sea Scrolls, Early Jewish Literature. PhD 1994 University of Notre Dame. MDiv 1984 Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary. BA 1979 Lewis & Clark College.

Jennifer LaBounty. Associate professor of psychology. Child, adolescent, and adult development; methodology; internships. PhD 2008, MA 2005 University of Michigan. BS 2001 University of Oregon.

Diana J. Leonard. Associate professor of psychology and department chair. Identity, social judgments, and categorization. PhD 2012 University of California at Santa Barbara. BA 2004 Northwestern University.

Rebecca Lingafelter. Associate professor of theatre and department chair. Acting, Voice, Movement, Devising, Contemporary Performance, Modern American Drama, Ancient and Medieval Performance. MFA 2005 Columbia University. BA 2000 University of California at San Diego.

Suhaila Meera. Assistant professor of theatre. Global-Majority Theatre History and Theory, Dramaturgy, Performance Studies, Critical Refugee Studies, Childhood, Affect, Representation. 2023 Stanford University. 2013 BA Cornell University.

Susanna Morrill. Associate professor of religious studies. Religion in America. PhD 2002, MA 1993 University of Chicago. BA 1989 Bryn Mawr College.

Dawn Odell. Professor of art history. Early Modern East Asian and European Art History. PhD 2003 University of Chicago. MA 1992 Harvard University. BA 1986 Carleton College.

Jess Perlitz. Associate professor of art and department chair. Sculpture. MFA 2009 Temple University. BFA 2000 Bard College.

Paul R. Powers. Professor of religious studies. Islamic Studies. PhD 2001, MA 1992 University of Chicago Divinity School. BA 1990 Carleton College.

Will Pritchard. Associate professor of English. Restoration and 18th-Century Literature. PhD 1998, MA 1992 University of Chicago. BA 1986 Yale University.

Magalí Rabasa. Associate professor of Hispanic studies. Latin American Literature and Culture, Social Movements and Resistance. PhD 2014 University of California at Davis. BA 2004 University of Oregon.

Jolina H. Ruckert. Assistant professor with term of psychology. PhD 2014 University of Washington. MA 2006 Pepperdine University. BA 2004 University of Miami.

Thomas J. Schoeneman. Professor of psychology. Personality, abnormal psychology, internships. PhD 1979, MS 1974, BA 1973 State University of New York at Buffalo.

Catherine Sprecher Loverti. Visiting professor of German. PhD 2008 University of Chicago. MA 2000 University of Zürich.

Jessica D. Starling. Associate professor of religious studies and department chair. East Asian Religions, Buddhism. PhD 2012, MA 2006 University of Virginia. BA 2000 Guilford College.

Mary Szybist. Morgan S. Odell Professor of Humanities. Modern Poetry, Poetry Writing. MFA 1996 University of Iowa. MT 1994, BA 1992 University of Virginia.

Cara Tomlinson. Associate professor of art. Painting. MFA 1993 University of Oregon. BA 1986 Bennington College.

Sarah D. Warren. Associate professor of sociology and department chair. Race and ethnicity, social movements, nations and nationalism, gender, Latin America. PhD 2010 University of Wisconsin at Madison. MA 2004 University of Texas at Austin. BA 2001 University of Arizona.

Elliott Young. Professor of history. Latin American and U.S.-Mexico Borderlands History. PhD 1997, MA 1993 University of Texas at Austin. BA 1989 Princeton University.

Rishona Zimring. Professor of English, director of the gender studies program. Modern British Literature, Postcolonial Literature. PhD 1993, BA 1985 Yale University.

Courses