People

Robert Fitzgerald Reid-Pharr

Chair
Professor of Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality
Professor of African and African American Studies

Pronouns: he/him/his and sundry

Robert F. Reid-Pharr is Chair of Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality and Professor of African and African American Studies at Harvard University.

Office Hours

Boylston Hall G25
5 Harvard Yard
Cambridge, MA 02138

rpharr@fas.harvard.edu

p: 617-495-4208

Robin Bernstein

Dillon Professor of American History and Professor of African and African American Studies and of Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality

On sabbatical Fall 2021 & Spring 2022

I am a cultural historian who...

Michael Bronski

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,... Read more about Michael Bronski

Office Hours

CGIS S408
1730 Cambridge St.
Cambridge, MA 02138

bronski@fas.harvard.edu

Katherine Gibson

Gough Whitlam and Malcolm Fraser Visiting Professor in Australian Studies

Professor Katherine Gibson is internationally known for her research on rethinking economies as sites of ethical action. She trained as a human geographer...

Alice Jardine

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

On leave for Spring 2022

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 20^th- and 21^st-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

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

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

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

Afsaneh Najmabadi

Francis Lee Higginson Professor of History
Professor of Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality

Afsaneh Najmabadi is the Francis Lee Higginson Professor of History and of Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality at Harvard University. Her book, Women with Mustaches and Men without Beards: Gender and Sexual Anxieties of Iranian Modernity (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005), received the 2005 Joan Kelly Memorial Prize... Read more about Afsaneh Najmabadi

Personal website

History faculty page

Office Hours

Boylston Hall G33
5 Harvard Yard
Cambridge, MA 02138

najmabad@fas.harvard.edu

p: 617-496-7460

Nicole Noll

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

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

Harvard GenderSci Lab

Office Hours

William James Hall 960
33 Kirkland Street
Cambridge, MA 02138

noll@wjh.harvard.edu

Sarah Richardson

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

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

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

Phyllis Thompson

Lecturer on Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality -- Spring 2023

Pronouns: she/her series

Phyllis Thompson is a cultural historian who works on nineteenth- and twentieth-century American topics. Her book project, Domestic Pleasures: Dreams of Hope and Fulfillment in American Home Life, traces the intellectual history... Read more about Phyllis Thompson

Personal website

Office Hours

CGIS S409
1730 Cambridge St.
Cambridge, MA 02138

pepthomp@fas.harvard.edu