Noted feminist and public intellectual, Martha Ackmann focuses her research on women athletes, women in aviation and space, women in national politics, and Emily Dickinson.

Sociologist Eleanor Townsley teaches courses in the cultural sociology, social theory, sociology of gender, survey research and data analysis, and an archival and field methods class based in the Mount Holyoke College Archives.

How were human and nonhuman primate relations dramatized throughout the twentieth century? Ask Erika Rundle.

Christian Gundermann combines his interest in queer theory with the political study of the reinvention of radical politics in postdictatorship societies, as well as Argentine film and literature.

Author of Disarming the Nation: Women's Writing and the American Civil War, Elizabeth Young works to analyze the intersections among gender, race, and sexuality in American culture.

Karen Remmler's work combines training in German studies, critical social thought, women's studies, and Jewish studies. Within the field of Gender Studies, she focuses on contemporary literature by Jewish and German women writers living in Germany.

Mary Renda, a U.S. historian, focuses her teaching and research on the role of women and gender, the multicultural nature of U.S. history, and the international contexts in which that history has taken shape.