Christine Eisel

Christine Eisel is a member of the Department of History faculty at the University of Memphis, where she teaches courses on early America, U.S. women, and American ideas and culture. Her research focuses on women's gossip in early Virginia, bringing together her interests in women, law, and gender in the British North American colonies. Her essay "'They make one very handsome Mirkin amongst them': Gossip and Church Politics in Early York County, Virginia" appears in When Private Talk Goes Public: Gossip in American History (Jennifer Frost and Kathleen Feeley, eds., Palgrave Macmillan, 2014).