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Dr. Lee Jenkins is a multifaceted scholar and teacher. She is the author of six plays, including "A Credit to her Country" a play about the treatment of lesbians in the military. Dr. Jenkins not only writes and produces plays, she also teaches her students how to write and perform, taking live conversation and transforming the words of real people into performance art.

Her field research skills have also served the community, for example the Oral History Project for the SS Jeremiah O'Brien. In addition to Field Research and Performance Studies, Dr. Jenkins also teaches courses in Gender and Sexual Identity and Communication.

Mercilee Jenkins was awarded the 2004 Leslie Irene Coger Award for Distinguished Performance by the National Communication Association at an awards ceremony held Nov.13 in Chicago.