WGS professor Durba Mitra was recently featured in a Harvard Gazette interview in which she discusses the diverse experiences behind her new book, Indian Sex Life: Sexuality and the Colonial Origins of Modern Social Thought.  Conversations with her mother and other women defying social norms helped shape her questions and inform her academic work, she says. "I had these other structures of knowledge that helped me critically read outside the logic of deeply patriarchal, and often racist colonial ideas of Indian women."

Read the full Gazette interview here. 

In addition to publishing Indian Sex Life, Durba Mitra has also recently been awarded a Star Family Prize for Excellence in Faculty Advising and a Roslyn Abramson Award for Excellence in Teaching. Her Spring 2020 course, WOMGEN 1214 Solidarity: Transnational Women's Rights from Suffrage to NGOs, was lauded by students for innovative digital teaching. Please join us in congratulating Professor Mitra for her outstanding scholarship and teaching.