Girls' Studies Faculty

Dr. Terri D. Conley, Associate Professor of Psychology, (B.A., University of Wisconsin - Madison, 1993; M.A., University of California Los Angeles, 1995; Ph.D., 1999). My main research interests are in the sexuality and sexual risk behaviors of girls and young women.  (Conley & Peplau, 2005).

Dr. Miriam Forman-Brunell, Professor of History, (B.A., Sarah Lawrence College, 1977; M.A. Sarah Lawrence College, 1982; Ph.D., Rutgers University, 1990). Cultural and social history (including material culture) of girls and gender, the family, and sexuality in the U.S. Author of Made to Play House: Dolls and the Commercialization of American Girlhood, 1830-1930 (1993;1998); editor of Girlhood in America: An Encyclopedia, 2 vols. (2001); author of The Babysitter: A History (2008); series editor of Children & Youth: History and Culture (Greenwood/Praeger). Co-Director of Global Childhood: Children and Youth in History with Kelly Schrum, Center for History and New Media at George Mason University.  My research examines the construction of girlhood, the everyday lives of girls and female adolescents, and the principles and practices of girls' culture in American history.  

Dr. Jane Greer, Associate Professor of English, (B.A., Hanover College, 1986; M.A., The Ohio State University, 1990; Ph.D., The Ohio State University, 1994). Editor of Girls and Literacy in America: Historical Perspectives to the Present (Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2003). My current teaching and research focuses on women, girls, and literacy in the 19th and 20th centuries in the U.S.

Dr. Kristi Holsinger, Associate Professor of Sociology, Criminal Justice and Criminology, (B.A., Aquinas College, 1990; M.S., University of Cincinnati, 1995; Ph.D., University of Cincinnati, 1999). Joint appointment with Women's and Gender Studies. My research focuses on the needs and experiences of system-involved girls as well as teaching strategies in mentoring incarcerated youth and teaching restorative justice to traditional college students and incarcerated youth.

Dr. Jennifer D. Lundgren, Assistant Professor of Psychology, (B.S., Oklahoma State University, 1999; Ph.D., SUNY Albany, 2004). Selected peer reviewed publications: Lundgren, J.D., Danoff-Burg, S., & Anderson, D.A. (2004). "Cognitive-behavioral therapy for bulimia nervosa:  An empirical evaluation of clinical significance."  Lundgren, J.D. Allison, K.C., & Stunkard, A.J. (2006). "Familial aggregation in the night eating syndrome." My research focuses on the assessment and treatment of eating disorders, obesity and body image.

Dr. Lynda Payne, Associate Professor of History, (M.A., University of Edinburgh, Scotland, 1977; 1985 A.S.N. (Nursing) SUNY, Albany, N.Y. Registered Nurse, State of California; Ph.D., University of California Davis, 1997). My research and teaching examine children, adolescents and disease from 1600-present. I am currently researching a monograph on Percivall Potts, an 18th Century London surgeon who specialized in treating children and diagnosed the first industrial cancer in chimney sweeps. I have presented papers on the medical diagnosis of puberty in nineteenth century Europe and the sale of children in pre-modern Sweden. I have an article forthcoming on lovesickness, opera, and adolescent insanity.

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