Joan Wallach Scott
Guest Speaker
Professional affiliation
Professor Emerita in the School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study
Full Biography
Joan Wallach Scott is Professor Emerita in the School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey. A specialist in modern French history and the history of feminism, she perhaps is best known for her 1986 article, “Gender: A Useful Category of Historical Analysis.” Among her many books are The Politics of the Veil (2007); Sex and Secularism (2017);and Knowledge, Power, and Academic Freedom (2019).
