Elizabeth Reis

Associate Professor

Office	320 Hendricks Hall
Telephone	(541) 346-5904
Email	lzreis@uoregon.edu

Interests

• U.S. Women’s History
• History of Sexuality
• Medical Ethics
• Women and Religion

Affiliation

• Department of History

Research

Elizabeth Reis's book, Bodies in Doubt: An American History of Intersex, will be published by Johns Hopkins University Press next spring

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 (Philadelphia: Xlibris, 2000).
• Ed., American Sexual Histories: A Blackwell Reader in American Social and Cultural History (London and Malden, Mass.: Blackwell Publishers, 2001).

Articles

• "Divergence or Disorder? The Politics of Naming Intersex", Perspectives in Biology and Medicine 50:4 (Autumn 2007): 535-43.
• “Hermaphrodites and Same-Sex Sex in Early America,” in Thomas Foster, ed., Long Before Stonewall: Histories of Same-Sex Sexualities in Early America (New York: New York University Press, 2007).
• “Revelation, Witchcraft, and the Danger of Knowing God’s Secrets,” in Catherine Brekus, ed., Women and American Religion (Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press, 2007).
• "Impossible Hermaphrodies: Intersex in America, 1620-1960" Journal of American History 92 (September 2005), 411-41.

Biography

Professor Reis received her AB from Smith College in 1980, her MA in History from Brown University in 1982, and her PhD from UC Berkeley in 1991.