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Kendra Albert

Kendra Albert

Lecturer on Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality -- Fall 2022

Kendra Albert is a clinical instructor at the Harvard Cyberlaw Clinic at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society, where they teach students how to practice technology law by working with pro bono clients.... Read more about Kendra Albert

kalbert@cyber.harvard.edu
Robin Bernstein

Robin Bernstein

Dillon Professor of American History and Professor of African and African American Studies and of Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality
Director of the Program in American Studies

I am a cultural historian who specializes in U.S. racial formation from the nineteenth century to the present. A graduate of Yale's doctoral program...

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Robin Bernstein
Robin Bernstein's Book - Racial Innocence
Racial Innocence
Department of African and African American Studies
12 Quincy St.
Cambridge, MA 02138
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Office: Boylston G31
Fax: (617) 496-9855
rbernst@fas.harvard.edu
p: (617) 495-9634
Thomas Conners

Thomas Conners

Lecturer on Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality -- Fall 2022
Thomas Conners is a lecturer on the Committee on Degrees in History and Literature where he teaches on Latinx culture and history, legal studies, and queer studies. He received his Ph.D. in Hispanic Studies from the University of Pennsylvania and his B.A. in Spanish & Education from Ithaca College.... Read more about Thomas Conners
Website
thomasconners@fas.harvard.edu
Alice Jardine

Alice Jardine

Director of Graduate Studies
Professor of Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality
Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures

Alice Jardine is Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures (RLL) and of Studies of Women, Gender & Sexuality (WGS) at Harvard University, where she co-founded and helped to develop and lead WGS. Her teaching in RLL focuses on 20th- and 21st-century French/Francophone literature, poststructuralist and feminist theory. In WGS, her courses... Read more about Alice Jardine

Website
Boylston Hall G24
5 Harvard Yard
Cambridge, MA 02138
jardine@fas.harvard.edu
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Caroline Light

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, and the ways in which white supremacy, (hetero)sexism, and classism shape collective (mis)memory and archival silence. Light's first book, That Pride of Race and Character: the Roots of Jewish Benevolence in the Jim Crow South (NYU Press, 2014) illuminates the experience of southern Jewish assimilation through the lens of benevolent uplift. ... Read more about Caroline Light

Caroline Light's website
Office Hours
Boylston Hall G32
5 Harvard Yard
Cambridge, MA 02138
clight@fas.harvard.edu
p: 617-495-1964
Durba Mitra

Durba Mitra

Richard B. Wolf Associate Professor of Women, Gender, and Sexuality
Acting Director of The Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America

Durba Mitra is the Richard B. Wolf Associate Professor of Women, Gender, and Sexuality at Harvard University.

Mitra works at the intersection of feminist and queer studies. ... Read more about Durba Mitra

Office Hours
Boylston Hall G26
5 Harvard Yard
Cambridge, MA 02138
dmitra@fas.harvard.edu
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Marya T. Mtshali

Lecturer on Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality -- Spring 2023
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Shorenstein Center, Harvard Kennedy School

Pronouns: she/her

Marya Thembi Mtshali is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Technology and Social Change Project at the Shorenstein Center in the Harvard Kennedy School and a Lecturer in Women, Gender, and Sexuality at Harvard University. Additionally, she has taught classes at Wellesley College and Clark University. She received her Ph.D. in Sociology from Boston College under the tutelage of Zine Magubane, Ph.D. She obtained her B.S. in Sociology, B.S. in Marketing with an emphasis in international business, and a minor in Women and Gender Studies from Arizona State University.... Read more about Marya T. Mtshali

Office Hours
Nicole Noll

Nicole Noll

Senior Preceptor in Psychology
Lecturer on Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality -- Fall 2022

Nicole Noll is a social psychologist who studies everyday actions like posture and gestures to understand their relationship to our thoughts and behaviors. She is especially... Read more about Nicole Noll

Office Hours
William James Hall 960
33 Kirkland Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
noll@wjh.harvard.edu
Sarah S. Richardson (Photo by Tony Rinaldo)

Sarah Richardson

Professor of Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality
Professor of the History of Science

On leave Fall 2022 and Spring 2023

Sarah S. Richardson is Professor of the History of Science and of Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality at Harvard University. She is jointly appointed in the Department of the History of Science and the Committee on Degrees in Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality.... Read more about Sarah Richardson

Sarah Richardson's website
History of Science faculty page
Office Hours
Boylston Hall G34
5 Harvard Yard
Cambridge, MA 02138
srichard@fas.harvard.edu
p: 617-495-2173
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Linda Schlossberg

Associate Director of Undergraduate Studies
Lecturer on Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality

Pronouns: she/her

Linda Schlossberg received her Ph.D in English and American Literature from Harvard, where she now serves as Associate Director of Undergraduate Studies for WGS and teaches courses in literature and creative writing.... Read more about Linda Schlossberg

Office Hours
Boylston Hall G27
5 Harvard Yard
Cambridge, MA 02138
schloss@fas.harvard.edu
p: 617-496-9853