Evelynn Hammonds Named Audre Lorde Visiting Professor of Queer Studies

May 18, 2022
Evelynn Hammonds

WGS Standing Committee member Evelynn Hammonds has been appointed the inaugural Audre Lorde Visiting Professor of Queer Studies at her undergraduate alma mater, Spelman College. The Audre Lorde chair is the first endowed professorship in queer studies at a Historically Black College or University.

Professor Hammonds is the Chair of the Department of the History of Science, Barbara Gutmann Rosenkrantz Professor of the History of Science, Professor of African and African American Studies, and Professor in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences at the T. Chan School of Public Health. Her current work focuses on the intersection of scientific, medical, and socio-political concepts of race in the United States. She is completing a history of biological, medical, and anthropological uses of racial concepts entitled, The Logic of Difference: A History of Race in Science and Medicine in the United States,1850–1990. She is also completing the MIT Reader on Race and Gender in Science, co-edited with Rebecca Herzig and Abigail Bass. 

Please join WGS in congratulating Professor Hammonds on this honor! 

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