Christin Hancock

Christin Lee Hancock (Ph.D. 2005 Brown University) is professor of history and gender, women, and sexuality studies (GWSS) at the University of Portland. Dr. Hancock teaches courses in modern U.S. history that highlight issues of gender, race, and social reform. Some of these courses include Women's and Gender History, Disability History, and Protest and Reform History. Dr. Hancock’s research explores the intersections of race, gender, health, and health care. She is the author of Unmentionable Madness: Gender, Disability, and Shame in the Malaria Treatment of Neurosyphilis published by the University of Illinois Press in January 2025. Additionally, she has published numerous articles in academic journals including The Journal of Women’s History, South Dakota History, and the Oregon Historical Quarterly. She was the 2012 recipient of the Herbert S. Schell Prize in History for her article “Being all Things to all men: Louisa Irvine Riggs and the Cultural Implications of Women’s Missionary Work.”  In 2016 she guest edited a special issue of the Oregon Historical Quarterly, “Regulating Birth in Oregon.” At the University of Portland she has served on numerous committees and task forces, and she currently serves as Academic Associate Dean in the College of Arts and Sciences. Christi lives in NE Portland with her husband and their three children.