Elizabeth Reis

Elizabeth Reis is a professor at the Macaulay Honors College, City University of New York, where she teaches classes on gender and bioethics. Before that she was Professor and Department Head of Women's and Gender Studies at the University of Oregon in Eugene, Oregon, where she taught classes on Women’s History, Medical Humanities, Transgender Issues, and Reproductive Technologies. She graduated from Smith College and received her Ph.D. in History at the University of California, Berkeley. Reis is the author of Bodies in Doubt: An American History of Intersex (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009; paper 2012); Damned Women: Sinners and Witches in Puritan New England (Cornell University Press, 1997); and the editor of American Sexual Histories (Wiley-Blackwell: 2012). Reis is interested in both the history and contemporary analysis of medical ethics, gender, sexuality, and religion and has published essays in a number of journals and periodicals, including the Hastings Center Report, Bioethics Forum, Journal of American History, Perspectives in Biology and Medicine, and the New York Times. She serves on the Ethics Committee at New York-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell and is the Content Editor of nursingclio.org, a collaborative blog project that focuses on the intersection of gender, history, and medicine.