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...

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

Karen Flood

Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, Harvard Summer School
Associate of the Committee on Degrees in Studies of Women, Gender

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Harvard Summer School
51 Brattle St
Cambridge MA 02138

kflood@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

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Office Hours

Boylston Hall G32
5 Harvard Yard
Cambridge, MA 02138

clight@fas.harvard.edu

p: 617-495-1964

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

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