People

I received my Ph.D. from Harvard University’s Department of South Asian Studies with a Secondary Field in the Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality. I examine the intellectual systems of South Asia – particularly Nyāya, Mīmāṃsā, and Buddhist philosophy...

I was drawn to WGS as a concentrator because I wanted rigorous training in feminist thought to give me a foundation for thinking across disciplines and to help me understand the structures of power and inequality in the world around me. I was particularly...

Anca Wilkening is a Ph.D. candidate with a primary concentration in the Study of Religion (North American Religions) with a secondary concentration in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. Her research interests bridge the Study of Religion with Queer...

Dr. Wilson's research is on affective reading in the later Middle Ages and today. She works on Petrarch, Chaucer, and Middle English devotional culture; her book in progress also discusses affective reading strategies in modern fan communities...

When I graduated from Harvard College in 2000 with a joint concentration in Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality (called Women’s Studies back then) and History of Science, I actually hid my diploma from my mom so she wouldn’t see. I hadn’t actually...

Tomiko Yoda received her B.A. in Religion from Wesleyan University, M.A. in Oriental Philosophy at Nagoya University, and her M.A. and Ph.D. in Japanese from Stanford. She previously taught at Duke, Cornell, and Stanford, and is a recipient of fellowships...

Dissertation Topic: TBD Research methods: Textual and visual analysis, literary criticism, critical theory Languages: Native Proficiency in Mandarin, Near-native Proficiency in English, Fluent French, Intermediate Arabic Areas of Interest: Postcolonial...