In 2019–20, Cord J.
Whitaker, Member in the School of Historical Studies
and Associate Professor at Wellesley College, is interested in the
history and development of race and racism in medieval English
literature.
In recent months, the Institute for Advanced Study has issued
public statements in response to the original and revised executive
orders that restrict travel from predominantly Muslim countries.
The orders, currently suspended, cause us great...
The following text is excerpted from Our Declaration: A
Reading of the Declaration of Independence in Defense of Equality
(Liveright Publishing Corporation, 2014) by Danielle Allen, UPS
Foundation Professor in the School of Social Science.
Critique will be the art of voluntary insubordination.”1
Epigraph to her essay ”History-writing as Critique,”2 this quote
from Michel Foucault is the key to understanding the
epistemological journey of the American historian Joan W.
Scott...
Underlying the 2004 law banning the wearing of Islamic
headscarves in French public schools is a fundamental clash between
French and Muslim gender systems, according to Joan Wallach Scott,
Harold F. Linder Professor in the School of Social Science...
