Amanda Izzo, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Education
Ph.D., American Studies, Yale University, 2010
M.Phil., American Studies, Yale University, 2006
M.A., American Studies, Yale University, 2005
B.A., Smith College, 1999
Practice Areas
Feminist Theory; Introduction to Sexuality Studies; Global and Transnational Feminism; Women, Faith, and Social Action; U.S. Women鈥檚 History
Research Interests
Izzo's work centers on women and social movements in U.S. history. Her book Liberal Christianity and Women's Global Activism: The YWCA of the USA and the Maryknoll Sisters, published in 2018, examines how women's organizations nurtured connections between spirituality and mobilizations for social justice across the twentieth century. Other research has addressed same-sex sexuality in Christianity, the cultural history of feminist movements, and social activism in St. Louis in the 1960s颅鈥�70s.
Publications and Media Placements
Co-editor, with Benjamin Looker, Left in the Midwest: St. Louis Progressive Activism in the 1960s and 1970s, University of Missouri Press, 2022
鈥溾�楿.S. out of El Salvador!鈥�: The Maryknoll Sisters and the Transnational Struggle for Human Rights,鈥� in People鈥檚 Peace: Prospects for a Human Future, ed. Yasmin Saikia and Chad Haines, Syracuse University Press, 2019
鈥溾�楤y Love, Serve One Another鈥�: Foreign Mission and the Challenge of World Fellowship in the YWCAs of Japan and Turkey,鈥� Journal of American-East Asian Relations, January 2018
鈥淥utrageous and Everyday: The Papers of Gloria Steinem,鈥� Journal of Women鈥檚 History, Spring 2002
Honors and Awards
Saint Louis University Scholarly Works Award, 2023, for Left in the Midwest: St. Louis Progressive Activism in the 1960s and 1970s
Mary C. Neth Prize, 2021, by the State Historical Society of Missouri for 鈥溾�楾o Help Them Brush Aside the Limitations That Hold Them Back鈥�: Ruth Porter, Liberal Interracialism, and St. Louis Community Organizing in the Civil Rights Era鈥�
Saint Louis University Scholarly Works Award, 2018, for Liberal Christianity and Women鈥檚 Global Activism: The YWCA of the USA and the Maryknoll Sisters