People

Evelynn M. Hammonds

hammonds@fas.harvard.edu

Barbara Gutmann Rosenkrantz Professor of the History of Science and Professor of African and African American Studies

Interim Chair of the Committee on Degrees in Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality

Professor in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences

Evelynn M. Hammonds is the Barbara Gutmann Rosenkrantz Professor of the History of Science, Professor of African and African American Studies in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences at the Harvard T.H. Chan...

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...

Kareem Khubchandani

kareemkhubchandani@fas.harvard.edu

F.O. Matthiessen Lecturer in Studies of Gender and Sexuality

Kareem Khubchandani is the author of the award-winning books Decolonize Drag (OR Books) and Ishtyle: Accenting Gay Indian Nightlife (University of Michigan Press). He is also co-editor of the Lambda Literary-nominated Queer Nightlife (University of...

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...

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...

Nicole Noll

noll@wjh.harvard.edu

Senior Preceptor in Psychology

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 interested in movement habits that are typically thought of as gendered, or that...

Imani Perry

iperry@fas.harvard.edu

Henry A. Morss, Jr. and Elisabeth W. Morss Professor of Studies of Women, Gender and Sexuality and of African and African American Studies

Carol K. Pforzheimer Professor, Harvard Radcliffe Institute

Professor Imani Perry is appointed jointly as Professor in Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality, and in African and African American Studies. She is scheduled to teach a course on Black feminist theory in fall 2023 and the WGS Junior Tutorial in Spring...

Sarah Richardson

Director of Graduate Studies

Aramont Professor of the History of Science

Professor of Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality

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...

Linda Schlossberg

schloss@fas.harvard.edu

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. Schlossberg is the...

Jocelyn Viterna

jviterna@wjh.harvard.edu

Chair of Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality (on leave 2025-2026)

Professor of Sociology

Jocelyn Viterna is Chair of Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality and Professor of Sociology at Harvard University. Her research examines how social mobilization affects gender norms and practices in politics, in government institutions, in warfare, and...