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AMHERST COLLEGE
Karen Sanchez-Eppler -- domestic fiction; women's movements and period reforms; women and health;childhood studies
Martha Sandweiss -- women and photography; the West

HAMPSHIRE COLLEGE
Christina Hanhardt--Sexual minority movements and counter politics, critical race theory, queer theory, urban studies and cultural geography.
L. Brown Kennedy -- literature and culture of the Southern U.S., women's writing and the representation of gender
Laurie Nisonoff -- U.S. women's labor history
Bethany Ogdon -- 20th-century women and media
Sujani Reddy -- critical race theory, postcolonial theory, transnational feminisms
Susan Tracy -- American social and intellectual history, labor history, women's history and African American history

MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE
Jane Crosthwaite -- roles of women in American religious history and Shaker history and art
Christopher Benfey -- Emily Dickinson; 20th-century American women poets
Lowell Gudmundson--Gendered history, economics, and demography. Latin and Afro Latin gender roles.
Lynda Morgan--Afro American gender studies
Roberto Marquez--Caribbean women writers
Elizabeth Young -- feminist theory; American literature; film

SMITH COLLEGE
Ginetta Candelario -- race and ethnicity in the Americas; beauty culture; Latin American and Latina feminisms.
Jennifer Guglielmo -- ethnic and race relations; working-class and transnational feminisms and histories of labor, im/migration and radical political culture
lice Hearst -- family and the state as represented in the law Daniel Horowitz -- U.S. women's history
Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz -- 19th- and 20th century U.S. women's history
Daphne Lamothe -- 20th century African American literature; black women writers
Alexandra Linden Miller Keller--Women, gender and feminism in the moving image, visual culture, film theory and cultural studies
Sherrill Redmon -- documentation of US womens lives and social, poitical, and cultural movements
Christine Shelton -- women and social change, equity issues, exercise and sport studies
Susan Van Dyne -- American women poets; feminist theory; 19th-century American women writers
Steve Waksman -- popular culture and the intersection of race, gender and sexuality

UMASS
Joyce Berkman -- American women's history; race, gender, and class relations
Deborah Carlin -- American studies
Laura Doyle -- modernism, women writers, and the novel
Lisa Henderson -- media and culture; field research; cultural production; the politics of sexual representation

A. Yemisi Jimoh -- African American women writers
Laura Lovett -- gender, race and family in 20th century America
Robert Paynter -- race, gender, and class relations; evolution of American society
Dean Robinson -- Afro-American political thought and American political thought
Manisha Sinha -- U.S. history and pre-Civil War
Jenny Spencer-- modern dramatic literature, British and American theatre, contemporary performance, critical theory, and feminist studies