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WGS Standing Committee Member Steph Burt Offers Course on Taylor Swift

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Professor Steph Burt's brand-new course on Taylor Swift is making national headlines. In ENG 183ts, students will "learn how to study fan culture, celebrity culture, adolescence, adulthood and appropriation; how to think about white texts, Southern texts...

Deidre Lynch Named Harvard College Professor

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Harvard has announced that WGS Standing Committee member Deidre Lynch has been named a Harvard College Professor. Harvard College Professors are recognized for their contributions to undergraduate teaching and a positive influence on the culture of...

Stephen Burt Receives Guggenheim Fellowship

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WGS Standing Committee member and Professor of English Stephen Burt has received a 2016 fellowship in poetry from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Guggenheim fellowships are awarded annually to " people who have made accomplishments in their...

Robin Bernstein - Book Talk at Harvard Book Store

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Join WGS Professor Robin Bernstein at the below event to hear her speak about her new book, Freeman's Challenge: The Murder That Shook America's Original Prison for Profit. In conversation with WGS Standing Committee member Brandon M. Terry at Harvard...

Sarah Lewis at the Cambridge Public Library - in conversation with WGS Professor Imani Perry

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WGS Standing Committee member Sarah Lewis and WGS Professor Imani Perry will be discussing Lewis' new book, The Unseen Truth: When Race Changed Sight in America, at the Cambridge Public Library on Monday, September 16 at 6pm. Register for the event here...

George Paul Meiu Receives Tenure

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WGS Standing Committee member George Paul Mieu has received tenure. As of July 1, he will be promoted to Professor in the Department of Anthropology and the Department of African and African American Studies. Professor Mieu teaches Sex, Money, and Power...

Viterna Wins Sociology Book Award

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WGS Standing Committee member and Associate Professor of Sociology Jocelyn Viterna has received the Eastern Sociological Society's 2015 Komarovsky Award for her book Women in War: The Micro-processes of Mobilization in El Salvador. Viterna's book has also...

New Book by Annabel Kim Released

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WGS Standing Committee member Professor Annabel Kim has published a new book with the University of Minnesota Press. Her book, Cacaphonies: The Excremental Canon of French Literature, explores feces as part of the French literary canon, "[undertaking]...

Mark D. Jordan Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

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Richard Reinhold Niebuhr Professor of Divinity and WGS Standing Committee member Mark D. Jordan has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Along with eleven other Harvard faculty elected to the Academy this year, Jordan joins a list of...

Deidre Lynch's Essay Appears in LA Review of Books

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WGS Standing Committee Member Deidre Lynch's article, "Teaching Frankenstein at the Flying University for Ukrainian Students", has been featured in the LA Review of Books. The essay discusses her experience volunteering as a teacher for the Flying...

Durba Mitra Wins Undergraduate Teaching Award

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WGS Professor Durba Mitra has received a Roslyn Abramson Award for excellence in undergraduate teaching. Each year the FAS honors two junior faculty members with Abramson Awards for "their ability to communicate with and inspire undergraduates, their...

Sarah Richardson Appointed Aramont Professor

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On Thursday, September 12, 2023, the Provost’s Office announced the appointment of WGS Professor Sarah Richardson as the Aramont Professor of the History of Science and Professor of Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality, effective July 1, 2023. The...