Nancy Wall is currently serving as Associate Provost (2022-present) and the institution's Accreditation Liaison Officer (ALO) to the Higher Learning Commission (HLC).
I teach courses in Restoration and eighteenth-century British literature. When I'm not geeking out on all things eighteenth-century, I love to cook--and I've been known to watch marathons of true-crime TV until I'm too terrified to fall asleep.
I teach courses covering European Modern, Contemporary and American art, material culture, and theory. My scholarly publications look at the intersection between rising consumerism, new modes of visual display, and the construction of gender in the late 19th and early 20th century.
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.
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
Alison Guenther-Pal is chair of German Studies and affiliated faculty in Film Studies and Gender Studies. Like the students at Ñî¹óåú´«Ã½ÊÓƵ, she is "multi-interested," but her main topics of inquiry are otherness and alterity.
I am joyfully making theatre at Ñî¹óåú´«Ã½ÊÓƵ 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 ac
Marcy Quiason, Ph.D. (she/her) is an Assistant Professor of Gender Studies at Ñî¹óåú´«Ã½ÊÓƵ. 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 specializes in the history of early and nineteenth-century America. Her interests include transatlantic history, the American West, gender and environmental history.
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.
Petra Watzke enjoys teaching classes at all levels of the curriculum, always with a focus on equity and social justice. Her research interests are twofold.
