As an associate professor of history and director of undergraduate studies at Case Western Reserve University, Dr. Sentilles is pushing the envelope on women’s studies. With numerous publications from Articles in literary and educational journals,  to books, she explores mediums like the Internet through women’s studies.  Her critically acclaimed book, Performing Menken: Adah Isaac Menken and the Birth of American Celebrity,  is about a performer whose cross-dressing and public personal echoed Loreta Velazquez’ life and times, and she is a native  of New Orleans whose family goes back many generations in the city.  Ms. Sentilles’ new book is about the modern woman of the early 20^th century.