Patricia J. Williams is an American legal scholar and a proponent of critical race theory,a school of legal thought that emphasizes race as a fundamental determinant of the American legal system.
John D'Emilio is a professor emeritus of history and of women's and gender studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He taught at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. He earned his B.A. from Columbia College and Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1982,where his advisor was William Leuchtenburg. He was a Guggenheim fellow in 1998 and National Endowment for the Humanities fellow in 1997 and also served as Director of the Policy Institute at the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force from 1995 to 1997.
Patricia Nelson Limerick is an American historian,author,lecturer and teacher,considered to be one of the leading historians of the American West.
KimberléWilliams Crenshaw is an American civil rights advocate and a leading scholar of using critical race theory as a lens to further explore and examine the Tulsa massacre. She is a professor at the UCLA School of Law and Columbia Law School,where she specializes in race and gender issues.
Dorothy E. Roberts is an American sociologist,law professor,and social justice advocate. She is the Penn Integrates Knowledge Professor,George A. Weiss University Professor,and inaugural Raymond Pace and Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander Professor of Civil Rights at the University of Pennsylvania. She writes and lectures on gender,race,and class in legal issues. Her focuses include reproductive health,child welfare,and bioethics. In 2023,she was elected to the American Philosophical Society. She also has published over 80 articles and essays in books and scholarly journals,including Harvard Law Review,Yale Law Journal,and Stanford Law Review.
The Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women was established in 1981 at Brown University,Providence,Rhode Island,as an interdisciplinary research center focused on gender and women. In addition to research,the center is home to archives of feminist theory and women's history as well as Brown's undergraduate Gender and Sexuality Studies concentration. Postcolonial theorist Leela Gandhi,is the Center's director,having assumed the position in July 2021.
Darlene Clark Hine is an American author and professor in the field of African-American history. She is a recipient of the 2014 National Humanities Medal.
Estelle Freedman is an American historian. She is the Edgar E. Robinson Professor in U.S. History at Stanford University She received her Bachelor of Arts degree from Barnard College in 1969 and her Master of Arts (1972) and PhD (1976) in history from Columbia University. She has taught at Stanford University since 1976 and is a co-founder of the Program in Feminist Studies. Her research has explored the history of women and social reform,including feminism and women's prison reform,as well as the history of sexuality,including the history of sexual violence.
Joanne Meyerowitz is an American historian and author. She was a professor at Indiana University and the University of Cincinnati before becoming editor of the Journal of American History from 1999 to 2004. Following her tenure there,she accepted a position at Yale University,where she was subsequently appointed the Arthur Unobskey Professor of History. Her work has appeared in the American Historical Review,Gender &History,the Journal of Women's History,and the Bulletin of the History of Medicine.
Nancy Falik Cott is an American historian and professor who has taught at Yale and Harvard universities,specializing in gender topics in the United States in the 19th and 20th centuries. She has testified on same-sex marriage in several US states.
Marianne Hirsch is the William Peterfield Trent Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University and Professor in the Institute for Research on Women,Gender,and Sexuality.
Laura Engelstein is an American historian who specializes in Russian and European history. She served as Henry S. McNeil Professor Emerita of Russian History at Yale University and taught at Cornell University and Princeton University. Her numerous publications have included Moscow,1905:Working-Class Organization and Political Conflict (1982); The Keys to Happiness:Sex and the Search for Modernity in Fin-de-Siecle Russia (1992); Castration and the Heavenly Kingdom:A Russian Folktale (1999); Slavophile Empire:Imperial Russia’s Illiberal Path (2009);and Russia in Flames:War,Revolution,Civil War,1914–1921 (2017). In 2000,she co-edited an essay collection with Stephanie Sandler,Self and Story in Russian History. A translation with Grazyna Drabik of Andrzej Bobkowski's Wartime Notebooks:France,1940–1944,is set to be released in November 2018. Her research interests lie in the "social and cultural history of late imperial Russia,with attention to the role of law,medicine,and the arts in public life," as well as "themes in the history of gender,sexuality,and religion." Shortly before fall 2014,Engelstein retired from her work as a professor at Yale University.
Carroll Smith-Rosenberg is an American academic and author who is the Mary Frances Berry Collegiate Professor of History,American Culture,and Women's Studies,Emerita,at the University of Michigan,Ann Arbor.
Jean Elizabeth Howard is an American professor in English studies and a Shakespeare scholar. She is George Delacorte Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University and a former trustee of Brown University.
Laura Briggs is a feminist critic and historian of reproductive politics and US empire. She works on transnational and transracial adoption and the relationship between race,sex,gender,and US imperialism. Her 2012 book Somebody's Children:The Politics of Transracial and Transnational Adoption won the James A. Rawley Prize from the Organization of American Historians for best book on the history of US race relations and has been featured on numerous college syllabi in the US and Canada. Briggs serves as professor and chair of the Women,Gender,and Sexuality Studies program at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
Jeffrey A. Masten is an American academic specializing in Renaissance English literature and culture and the history of sexuality. He is the author and editor of numerous books and scholarly articles. Masten's book Queer Philologies was awarded the 2018 Elizabeth Dietz Prize for the best book in the field of early modern drama by the journal SEL:Studies in English Literature 1500–1900. He was named a Guggenheim Fellow in English Literature for 2022.
Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers is an American historian. She is an associate professor of history at the University of California,Berkeley,and the author of They Were Her Property:White Women as Slave Owners in the American South. She is an expert in African-American history,the history of American slavery,and women's and gender history.
Felicity A. Nussbaum is Distinguished Research Professor of English at the University of California,Los Angeles. Her research interests include 18th-century literature and culture,critical theory,gender studies and postcolonial and Anglophone studies. In the past she taught at Syracuse University and Indiana University South Bend.
Deborah A. Thomas is an American anthropologist and filmmaker,and is the R. Jean Brownlee Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Center for Experimental Ethnography at the University of Pennsylvania. She has published books and articles on the history,culture,and politics of Jamaica;and on human rights,sexuality,and globalization in the Caribbean arena. She has co-produced and co-directed two experimental films,and has co-curated a multimedia exhibit at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. In 2016,she began a four-year term as editor-in-chief of the journal American Anthropologist. Before pursuing her career as an anthropologist,Thomas performed as a professional dancer with Urban Bush Women,a New York dance company that used art to promote social equity by illuminating the experiences of disenfranchised people.
Premilla Nadasen is an activist and historian,who specialises in the histories of women of colour in the welfare rights movement. She was President of the National Women's Studies Association from 2018 to 2020. She is the author of Welfare Warriors:The Welfare Rights Movement in the United States (2005) and Household Workers Unite:The Untold Story of African American Women Who Built a Movement (2016).
