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Michael Bronski

bronski@fas.harvard.edu

Professor of the Practice in Media and Activism

Pronouns: he/him Michael Bronski is Professor of the Practice in Media and Activism in Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality. He has been involved with LGBT politics since 1969 as an activist, organizer, writer, publisher, editor, and independent...

Cynthia Dwork

Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science

Radcliffe Alumnae Professor at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study

Affiliated Faculty at Harvard Law School

Katrina Forrester

kforrester@fas.harvard.edu

Assistant Professor of Government and Social Studies

Katrina Forrester is Associate Professor of Government and Social Studies at Harvard University. Her research focuses on the history of twentieth-century political thought and its implications for political theory. Forrester's first book In the Shadow of...

Hannah Frydman

hfrydman@fas.harvard.edu

Assistant Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures (French)

B.A. Smith College; Ph.D. Rutgers University–New Brunswick

Research Interests: 19th- and 20th-century French History, Literature, and Culture; Gender and Sexuality Studies; Queer Studies; Print Culture; History of Reading I am a cultural historian of modern France with a special interest in the relationship...

Elena Glassman

Assistant Professor of Computer Science

Elena L. Glassman is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering & Applied Sciences, specializing in human-computer interaction. Prior to that, she was a postdoctoral scholar at UC Berkeley, and obtained...

Jinah Kim

jinahkim@fas.harvard.edu

(On Leave: AY 2024-2025)

George P. Bickford Professor of Indian and South Asian Art and Professor of South Asian Studies

Jinah Kim is the George P. Bickford Professor of Indian and South Asian Art in the Department of History of Art & Architecture. She teaches courses on the art and architecture of South and Southeast Asia. She received her B.A. in Archaeology and Art...

Ju Yon Kim

juyonkim@fas.harvard.edu

Patsy Takemoto Mink Professor of English, Harvard College Professor

(On leave AY 2024-25)

Education: B.A., Yale University (2002) Ph.D., Stanford University (2011) Interests: Asian American literature; modern and contemporary theater; performance studies. Selected Works: “Between Paper and Performance: Suspicion, Race, and Casting in The Piano...

Annabel L. Kim

Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures

I received a B.A. in French and Art History from Williams College in 2007 and a Ph.D in French from Yale University in 2014. I am interested in feminist writing and theory, the novel (in particular, the contemporary novel), and, more broadly, the ethical...

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Marius Kothor

mariuskothor@fas.harvard.edu

Assistant Professor of Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality

Marius Kothor (PhD Yale '23) is an Assistant Professor of Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality at Harvard University. Starting from the premise that African women are powerful historical actors, Dr. Kothor's work moves beyond efforts to recover women’s...

Caroline Light

clight@fas.harvard.edu

Director of Undergraduate Studies

Senior Lecturer on Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality

Caroline Light is a Senior Lecturer and the Director of Undergraduate Studies in WGS. Her research explores histories of citizenship and belonging in the United States, including how Jewish immigrants created a web of benevolent organizations in the South...

Deidre Shauna Lynch

deidrelynch@fas.harvard.edu

Harvard College Professor. Ernest Bernbaum Professor of Literature.

Education: B.A. Hons., University of British Columbia (1983) A.M., Ph.D., Stanford University (1992) Interests: Eighteenth-century and Romantic-period British literature and culture; theory and history of the novel; the Gothic; the Enlightenment; book...

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Durba Mitra

dmitra@fas.harvard.edu

Richard B. Wolf Associate Professor of Women, Gender, and Sexuality

Durba Mitra is Richard B. Wolf Associate Professor in Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality at Harvard University. Mitra’s scholarship brings together feminist political thought, sexuality studies, and global intellectual history. Mitra's second book...