Lisa Lake:
CLASS OF 1970
Woodway High SchoolClass of 1970
Edmonds, WA
Linfield CollegeClass of 1974
Mcminnville, OR
Lisa's Story
When I read "As I Lay Dying" in high school English, I never dreamed I'd end up in Faulkner's mythical Yoknapatawpha County--but I did. After receiving a PhD in sociology at U Wash, I began teaching at Ole Miss in Oxford, MS in 1989. I teach Family, Criminology, Deviance, Social Psych, and my latest passion, the Sociology of Food. My research looks at nutrition advice to Progressive Era housewives in "Good Housekeeping" magazine, 1885-1920. My husband of 43 years (a retired psychologist from Vashon) and I live on 12 acres (with lovely pond) in the country (Lafayette County - that's Yoknapatawpha County for you Faulknerphiles), where I like to cook, mow a lot, garden, walk on paths through woods, and try to keep the kudzu, fire ants, and cottonmouths at bay. I sing second alto in the Oxford Civic Chorus, and harmonize ...Expand for more
with an informal folk/rock group of friends and colleagues. We are still tied to NW by relatives, and own 2 acres on Vashon Island. Twenty-eight years in Mississippi, and I stilI cling to my Minnesota-Washington accent and Left Coast liberalism, here, forever a stranger in a strange land. But the academic life suits me, and I have great colleagues (I'm now the oldest member of my Soc/Anthro department). Now, if only I could get through "Absalom, Absalom"! And an update: As of 6/30/20 I am officially retired after 31 years of teaching. I intended to teach another year or two, but the complications of teaching in the time of Covid-19 meant there were few upsides to staying on, and a lot of downsides. I'm a bit unmoored by the change, but look forward to lots of road trips and family visits once the virus is past us!
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