MICRO-BIO

• Lisa Arellano is an Associate Professor of American Studies and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Colby College. Her research focuses on comparative social movements, critical historiography and violence studies. Her first book, Vigilantes a.....More

  Lisa Arellano is an Associate Professor of American Studies and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Colby College. Her research focuses on comparative social movements, critical historiography and violence studies. Her first book, Vigilantes and Lynch Mobs: Community, Nation, and Narrative, was published by Temple Univeristy Press in 2012. She is co-editor, with Amanda Frisken and Erica Ball, of a recent issue of the Radical History Review, entitled, "Reconsidering Gender, Violence and the State." Arellano's current book manuscript, Disarming Imagination: Violence and the American Political Left, contains research on high profile rape revenge cases, anti-violence activism, militant political movements, and dis/utopian political literature.

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EXPERIENCE

• Colby College

  • Associate Professor and Program Director
  • Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
  • Present

EDUCATION

• Stanford University

  • Ph.D.
  • September 1998 to June 2005

  Program in Modern Thought and Literature, concentration in History

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