#  Professors Jardine and Mitra Awarded Cabot Fellowships 

 





May 24, 2021

 

 

 WGS Professors Alice Jardine and Durba Mitra were awarded [Walter Channing Cabot Fellowships](https://www.fas.harvard.edu/2021-prize-winners), given annually to select Harvard faculty "in recognition of their achievements and scholarly eminence in the fields of literature, history or art."

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   ![photo of Alice Jardine](/sites/g/files/omnuum8271/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/wgs/files/ajardine_0.jpg?itok=9aW5Jnya) 

 

Alice Jardine is Professor of Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality and Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures at Harvard University. Her most recent book, *[At the Risk of Thinking: An Intellectual Biography of Julia Kristeva](https://rll-faculty.fas.harvard.edu/alicejardine/publications/risk-thinking-intellectual-biography-julia-kristeva),* was [selected as a finalist](https:/publishers.org/news/association-of-american-publishers-announces-finalists-for-2021-prose-awards/) in the Association of American Publishers (AAP) 45th annual Professional and Scholarly Excellence (PROSE) Awards competition in the Biography & Autobiography category**.** [](/people/durba-mitra)

   ![Durba Mitra](/sites/g/files/omnuum8271/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/wgs/files/durba_mitra.png?itok=7qzEa3f0) 

 

Durba Mitra is Assistant Professor of Women, Gender, and Sexuality, the Carol K. Pforzheimer Assistant Professor at the Radcliffe Institute at Harvard University, and the author of [*Indian Sex Life: Sexuality and the Colonial Origins of Modern Social Thought*](https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691196350/indian-sex-life) (Princeton University Press, 2020), which received honorable mention for the [J. Willard Hurst Book Prize](https:/www.lawandsociety.org/2021/05/18/lsa-2021-annual-awards-announced/) from the Law & Society Association.  Please join us in congratulating Professors Jardine and Mitra!



 

 

 



 

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