JESSICA ANN NATHANSON ’90

JESSICA ANN NATHANSON, 42, assistant professor at Augsburg College in Minneapolis, Minn., and director of the Women’s Studies Program and the Women’s Resource Center there, died of breast cancer Apr. 5, 2011. She received her master’s and doctoral degrees from the State University of New York at Buffalo. After teaching at Augustana College in Sioux Falls, S.D., where she was an active force in feminist organizations and a contributor to Dakota Women, she joined the faculty at Augsburg and was instrumental in shaping the Women’s Studies community there. She co-moderated the international women’s studies listserv, WMST-L, and co-edited the book Mother Knows Best: Talking Back to the “Experts”. At the time of her death she was working on a book project dealing with new media and the production of feminist theory. Survivors include her husband, Dr. Dan Weinstein ’91, one son, her parents, and her brother.