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

Jane Kamensky

Jonathan Trumbull Professor of American History
Pforzheimer Foundation Director of the Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study

On leave 2022-2023

Jane Kamensky is professor of history at Harvard University and the...

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

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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