Core Faculty
Elizabeth Lapovsky Kennedy, Ph.D.Professor of Women's Studies
- Office: SBS Annex 207
- Phone: 626-6991
- Email: kennedye@email.arizona.edu
- Office Hours: TBA
Elizabeth Lapovsky Kennedy received her Ph.D. in social anthropology from Cambridge
University, England in 1972 based on her research about the Waunan of the Chocó
province, Colombia. Kennedy was a founding member of Women's Studies at SUNY,
Buffalo where she taught for twenty-eight years. She is author of Boots of
Leather, Slippers of Gold: The History of A Lesbian Community (Routledge,
1993), which received the Jesse Barnard Award for the best book on women in the
field of Sociology in 1994, the Ruth Benedict Award for the best book on a gay/lesbian
theme in Anthropology in 1994, and a Lambda Literary Award in 1993. She has also written
about the development of women's studies as a field, including the book Feminist
Scholarship: Kindling in the Groves of Academe (University of Illinois Press 1983)
(with Ellen DuBois et al). Her research/teaching interests include: lesbian and gay
history, 20th century sexuality, comparative studies of sexual communities, development
of the field of women's studies, feminist pedagogy, feminist research methods, ethnography
and oral history.