Two WGS concentrators, Sai Shanthanand S. Rajagopal (’20) and Constance M. Bourguignon ('20), are among the seven Harvard seniors to win Rhodes Scholarships for study at Oxford University in the UK. Rajagopal (’20) is a joint concentrator in Biomedical Engineering and WGS, and Bourguignon ('20) is a joint concentrator in Romance Languages and Literature and WGS.
WGS Alum Jia Hui Lee was featured in an MIT News article, "When rats work to protect human safety". Lee (AB '12), now a PhD candidate in MIT’s History, Anthropology, and Science, Technology, and Society (HASTS) program, is reseraching global differences in human-animal relationships, including those between landmine-detecting rats and their handlers, and is interested to learn what these relationships show ...
WGS students Constance Bourguignon (Joint Concentrator), Sarah Lipson (Full Concentrator), and Angela Hui (Secondary Fielder) have been invited to join Phi Beta Kappa as three of this year's Senior 48 group. Congratulations on this achievement, Constance, Sarah, and Angela!
WGS professor Michael Bronski's 2017 essay "The Last Gay Liberationist" (Boston Review, 2017) has recently been published as a book by the London Center for Book Arts. The essay is about gay activist Charles “Charley” Shively, who founded and produced the Boston-based anarchist gay men’s periodical, Fag Rag.
You can read more about Shivley's activism, life, and writing in the ...
WGS Professor Sarah Richardson has been featured in the November-December issue of Harvard Magazine. The article The Sciece of Sexby Bennett McIntosh, discusses Richardson's latest research at the intersection of gender, ...
Harvard WGS and RLL professor Alice Jardine has written the first biography of Julia Kristeva, one of the world's most celebrated intellectuals. Informed in part by extensive interviews with Kristeva herself, the biography analyzes the complexities of Kristeva's writing and emphasizes her call for an urgent revival of bold interdisciplinary thinking in order to understand--...
Caroline Light was recently interviewed by New York Public Radio's The Takeaway for asegment on the murder conviction of police officer Amber Guyger. Light is the author of Stand Your Ground: A History of America’s Love Affair with Lethal Self-Defense, andspoke about the historical context of U.S. self-defense law and its relationship to the police.
Each year the FAS honors two junior faculty members with Roslyn Abramson Awards for "their ability to communicate with and inspire undergraduates, their accessibility, and their dedication to teaching." This year, WGS ProfessorDurba Mitrahas received the award and we congratulate her for the well-deserved recognition!
