Elizabeth Reis, professor and chair of Women’s and Gender Studies, is a 2014- 2015 Fund for Faculty Excellence awardee. The fund is designed to enhance the university’s commitment to improve its overall academic quality and reputation by supporting, recognizing, and retaining outstanding tenured faculty.

Reis is the author of Bodies in Doubt: An American History of Intersex (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009) and the editor of American Sexual Histories (Wiley- Blackwell: 2012). She is interested broadly in both the history and contemporary analysis of medical ethics, autonomy, sexuality, and religion. Reis serves on the Ethics Committee and the Ethics Consult Team at PeaceHealth Medical Center in Eugene, and is the Content Editor of nursingclio.org, a collaborative blog project that focuses on the intersection of gender, sexuality, and medicine.