Recent news

Jewel Pereyra has been named a Sheila Biddle Ford Foundation Fellow in the Hutchins Center, as part of the next cohort of W.E.B. Du Bois Research Institute Fellows. Congratulations, Jewel! Read the full list of fellows here.

Caroline Light writes in Slate on the self-defense case of Ríhanna Kelver. Can a Wyoming Trans woman Stand Her Ground?

Caroline Light, with Janae Thomas, published a piece titled Who Gets to Be a "Good Guy" with a Gun?, discussing gun ownership and mass incarceration. Read the article here.

Kareem Khubchandani's book, Lessons in Drag: A Queer Manual for Academics, Artists, and Aunties, has been nominated for a Lammy Award in LGBTQ+ Studies. The Lammy Awards are given by the Lambda Literary, an organization that promotes LGBTQ+ voices in...

Congratulations to Professor Linda Schlossberg, who was awarded a grant from the Mass Cultural Council for her work in literature. This honor is conferred on artists who advance creative expression in Massachusetts communities.

Professor Marius Kothor was interviewed for an article o n a group of businesswomen in Togo called the Nana Benz. Read the story here.

Professor Light's article discusses the killing of peaceful activists in Minneapolis. Read " Don’t Let Them Tell You That Was Self-Defense ” by Caroline Light

Professor Caroline Light discusses the deadly intersection of Stand Your Ground, Permitless Carry, and Open Carry in Florida and beyond. Read the article here.

WGS Professor Jung Ja Choi has published a chapter in an edited volume titled Revisiting the Poetics and Politics of Modernism (Palgrave’s Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics). You can read the chapter here.

Prof. Kothor was a guest on the American Historical Review's podcast, History in Focus. Listen to the episode here, and read the referenced article here.