Elizabeth Reis

Office: 320 Hendricks Hall
Phone: (541) 346-5904
E-mail: lzreis@darkwing.uoregon.edu

EDUCATION
Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley, April 1991
M.A. Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, 1982
A.B. Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts, 1980, Awarded High Honors in History

EMPLOYMENT
Assistant professor, Women's and Gender Studies Program, University of Oregon, beginning Fall, 2002.
Adjunct professor, Departments of History and Women's Studies, University of Oregon, 1990-2002.
Visiting Research Fellow, Center for the Study of American Religion, Princeton University, 1994-1995.
Teaching fields include U.S. Women's History, Women's Studies, History of Sexuality, and Women and Religion

BOOKS
Damned Women: Sinners and Witches in Puritan New England (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1997; paper 1999).
Ed., Spellbound: Women and Witchcraft in America (Wilmington, Del.: Scholarly Resources, Inc., 1998).
Ed., Dear Lizzie: Memoir of a Jewish Immigrant Woman (Phil., Xlibris, 2000).
Ed., American Sexual Histories: A Blackwell Reader in American Social and Cultural History (London and Malden, Mass.: Blackwell Publishers, 2001).
Impossible Hemaphrodites, book in progress, to be published by Johns Hopkins University Press
Heaven Help Us: Angels, Gender, and American Religions, research in progress.

RECENT FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS
Ersted Award for Distinguished Teaching, University of Oregon, June 2004.
Humanities Research Center Fellowship, University of Oregon, Fall 2004.
Center for the Study of Women in Society, University of Oregon, Faculty Research Support Grant, Summer 2004; Summer 1999.
The Robert F. and Evelyn Nelson Wulf Professor in the Humanities, Humanities Center, University of Oregon, 2002-2003.
American Sexual Histories, nominated for Susan Koppelman Award, Honoring Feminist Anthologies, 2002.
National Endowment for the Humanities, Summer Research Fellowship, 2000.
American Antiquarian Society Legacy Fellowship, Worcester, Mass., Summer 1999.
Lilly Teaching Fellow, awarded by the American Academy of Religion and the Lilly Endowment, 1997-1998.
Faculty Research Support Grant, Center for the Study of Women in Society, University of Oregon, Summer 1999.
Lilly Teaching Fellow, awarded by the American Academy of Religion and the Lilly Endowment, 1997-1998.
Visiting Research Fellow, Center for the Study of American Religion, Princeton University, 1994-95.
National Endowment for the Humanities, Summer Research Fellowship, 1994.
Travel Grant, Center for the Study of Women in Society, University of Oregon, 1991, 1992, 1996.

RECENT ARTICLES
“Teaching Transgender History, Identity, and Politics,” in Radical History Review (Winter 2004), 166-77.
Guest Editor of Special Issue on Witchcraft, Organization of American Historians, Magazine of History (July, 2003).
"Immortal Messengers," in Andrew Burstein and Nancy Isenberg, Mortal Remains: Explaining Death in Early America (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002) 163-75.
"The Trouble with Angels," Common-place: The Interactive Journal of Early American Life (April, 2001), http://www.common-place.org/.
"African American Vision Stories" and "Puritan Conversion Narratives" in Colleen McDannell, ed., Religions of the United States in Practice (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2001).
"Witchcraft" and "Salem Witchcraft Trials" in Ronald Gottesman, ed., Encyclopedia of Violence in the United States (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 2000).
"The Devil, the Body, and the Feminine Soul in Puritan New England," The Journal of American History 82 (June 1995), 15-36. reprinted in Elaine G. Breslaw, ed. Witches of the Atlantic World: An Historical Reader and Primary Sourcebook (New York: NYU Press, 2000) reprinted in Stanley Katz, John Murrin, and Douglas Greenberg, eds., Colonial
America: Essays in Politics and Social Development, 5th edition (NY:McGraw Hill, 2001).

CONFERENCE PAPERS (much condensed list)
"Deceit and Desire: Doctors' Dilemmas with Nineteenth-Century Hermaphrodites," American Association of the History of Medicine, Madison, WI, May 2004.
"Hermaphroditic Impostors: Intersexuality in Nineteenth-Century America," presented at the Western Association of Women Historians conference, June 2003 and The Kinsey Institute, Bloomington, Indiana, November 2003.
Session chair, "Crossing Racial Boundaries: Linguistic and Sexual Frontiers in Early America," American Historical Association, San Francisco, January 2002.
Invited commentator, Conference on Sexuality in Early America, sponsored by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Philadelphia, June 2001.
Invited participant, The Worlds of John Winthrop: England and New England, 1588-1649 conference, sponsored by Millersville University, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, The Massachusetts Historical Society, and The Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, September 1999: "New England: World of Wonders and Witches."
"Angels and Affliction in America," presented at the Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, Rochester, NY, June 1999.

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
Book reviews, article referee reports, Journal of American History, William and Mary Quarterly, Journal of Women's History, American Historical Review, Women's Review of Books.
Fellowship Prize Committee, Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, 2004-2005.
Prize Committee for Best Article, Church History, 1999-2002
Women's Studies Committee, University of Oregon, member 1990-2001; chair 1992-94.

RECENT COMMUNITY LECTURES AND MEDIA APPEARANCES
Panel Moderator, "The Gender Evolution: Being Transgendered," Univ. of Oregon, Oct. 2001.
Feature interview on angels in America for Talking History, syndicated National Public Radio program, June 2001.
Invited Convocation address, "Witchcraft and Witch-hunting at the Other Salem," Willamette University, Salem, Oregon, 1999.
Feature interview on Salem witchcraft for Talking History, syndicated National Public Radio program, October 1998.