Background:
Lisa Kohlmeier is currently completing her Ph.D. in history at Claremont Graduate University. Her dissertation is entitled, "Intellectual Homes: The Search for Space in the Lives of Alice James, Alice Paul, Olgivanna Lazovich Wright, and Regina Anderson Andrews." Before coming to La Sierra University, she taught in the Department of History at Atlantic Union College in South Lancaster, Massachusetts. Her intellectual interests include women's literary culture, the Harlem Renaissance, historical studies of disease and mental illness, and American intellectual and cultural history.

Selected Honors:
In June 2006, she participated in the American Antiquarian Society Summer Seminar, Books and Their Readers to 1800 and Beyond. For the 2006-07 year, she was awarded a grant to do research at the libraries of the University of Wisconsin, Madison, as well as a Claremont Graduate University Dissertation Grant.