Jennifer Hirsch’s Research Cited in USA Today Article
The article, “Why it’s still so hard not to drink,” discusses alcohol, power dynamics, and privilege.
Former co-director for the CSSD Working Group Reframing Gendered Violence, Jennifer Hirsch, and sociologist Shamus Khan's research was cited in a USA Today article on alcohol consumption. The piece highlighted Professors Hirsch and Khan's findings on how college campus drinking culture is shaped by power dynamics and privilege.
The USA Today article can be found here.
To learn more about Jennifer Hirsch, you can visit her page on the CSSD website here.
For more on her work with the CSSD Working Group, Reframing Gendered Violence, read here.
Katherine Franke in Vox
Columbia Law Professor Franke commented on new US legislation to combat anti-Asian hate crimes.
In an article on the intent and anticipated implications of the US House of Representatives bill to improve data tracking of anti-Asian hate crimes, Professor Franke told Vox: “Enhancing criminal prosecutions of and requiring greater reporting on hate crimes are interventions that take place after bias incidents have taken place. Education, public messaging — particularly from elected officials — and other community-based programs aimed at reconciliation and repair are more likely to reduce the incidence of hate crimes.” Read the full article here.
Professor Franke, Sulzbacher Professor of Law at Columbia Law School, directs the Center for Gender and Sexuality Law and is the faculty director of the Public Rights/Private Conscience Project. She is a member of the current CSSD working groups Queer Aqui and former working groups Reframing Gendered Violence and Science and Social Difference.
Vanessa Agard-Jones Lectures on Ephemera at Wesleyan University
In “Empirical Ephemera,” Professor Agard-Jones used the concept-metaphor of sand to consider how coloniality is made material.
Assistant Professor Vanessa Agard-Jones gave a lecture on “Empirical Ephemera” at Wesleyan University’s Center for the Humanities. She explored the ways that colonality is made material, and how we might use sand as a tool for thinking an ephemeral archive, empirically.
Agard-Jones is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Columbia, co-director of CSSD’s Black Atlantic Ecologies working group, and member of the Queer Aqui and former Reframing Gendered Violence and Science and Social Difference working groups.
Elections to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences
Congratulations to Professors Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak and Mabel O. Wilson on joining the Academy.
Congratulations to University Professor Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak and Associate Professor Mabel O. Wilson on their election to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences.
Spivak is University Professor and Founder of the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society at Columbia, and former co-director of CSSD working group The Rural-Urban Interface: Gender and Poverty in Ghana and Kenya, Statistics and Stories.
Wilson is Associate Professor of Architecture, Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation at Columbia, and a member of former CSSD working groups Engendering the Archive and Reframing Gendered Violence.
Lila Abu-Lughod Delivered A Webinar On Gender Violence
This webinar was part of a virtual event series entitled Theory From The Margins
Anthropologist Lila Abu-Lughod, Reframing Gendered Violence working group fellow, delivered a webinar on "Gender from the Margins: The Geopolitics of Gender Violence" as part of a series hosted by the Theory from the Margins project. Professor Abu-Lughod spoke on her work, including the forthcoming collection The Cunning of Gender Violence.
Check out the Webinar Here.
Virtual Discussion with Fellows from Reframing Gendered Violence Project
Join us Monday, April 5th for a talk moderated by Professor Lila Abu-Lughod with Dr. Nimmi Gowrinathan, author of Radicalizing Her: Why Women Choose Violence.
Virtual Discussion with Fellows from Reframing Gendered Violence Project
On Monday, April 5th, the Institute for Research on Women, Gender & Sexuality (IRWGS) at Columbia will be hosting a virtual discussion of Radicalizing Her: Why Women Choose Violence with the author, Dr. Nimmi Gowrinathan from CUNY. Dipali Mukhodpadhyay will also be present as a respondent. The discussion will be moderated by Professor Lila Abu-Lughod, co-director of the working group Reframing Gendered Violence. The virtual event will run from 4:15pm-5:45pm.
Register here: tinyurl.com/RadicalizingHerApril5
Upcoming Webinar Series By Theory from the Margins
Professor Lila Abu-Lughod will be featured in a virtual project discussing her new book for the Religion and the Global Framing of Gender Violence working group.
Upcoming Webinar Series By Theory from the Margins
Join us Thursday, April 8th at 9:30am EST for a webinar series featuring Professor Lila Abu-Lughod, co-director of the working group Religion and the Global Framing of Gendered Violence, discussing her upcoming book. More details and zoom link to be announced later. The event will also be live-streamed.
Professor Lila Abu-Lughod is the Joseph L. Buttenwieser Professor of Social Science at Columbia University where she teaches anthropology and gender studies. Her book is entitled Gender from the Margins / The Geopolitics of Gender Violence. Read more about Professor Abu-Lughod’s work here.
Engendering the Archive Working Group Fellow was a guest on The Dean's Table
Mabel O. Wilson spoke with Fredrick Harris, Columbia University Dean of the Division of Social Science.
Mabel O. Wilson, Engendering the Archive Working and Reframing Gendered Violence working group fellow, spoke with Columbia University Dean of Social Science Fredrick Harris on his podcast, The Dean's Table. Professor Wilson spoke about how she decided on becoming an architect, reflected on her work which explores the history of Black exhibitions and museums, and shared insights into scholarship and practices of race, space, and culture.
Mabel O. Wilson interviewed by Washington Post
Engendering the Archive Working Group Fellow spoke to the Post about the Capitol riots and racial injustice in the police responses to protesting.
Mabel O. Wilson, Engendering the Archive Working and Reframing Gendered Violence working group fellow was interviewed by The Washington Post. She spoke about the racial injustice of rioters attacking the US Capitol without consequence, while Black Americans peacefully protesting police violence have been regularly met with outsized force.
CSSD Director Honored as One of 50 Explorers Changing the World
Paige West is highlighted by Forbes as one of 21 women to receive this recognition.
Paige West, Director of the Center for the Study of Social Difference and Claire Tow Professor of Anthropology, was named as one of 50 honorees who are changing the world by the Explorers Club. This designation honors Professor West's years of work in conservation and biodiversity, and collaborations with indigenous communities. She is one out of 21 women to receive this honor and is highlighted by Forbes.
Read the full Forbes article here.
See the full list of the Explorers Club 50 here.
Learn more about Professor West’s work at CSSD through her past working groups:
Reframing Gendered Violence
Pacific Climate Circuits: Moving Beyond Science, Technology, Engineering, and Economics
Women Mobilizing Memory Working Group Co-Director Interviewed by the European Observatory on Memories (EUROM)
The conversation with Marianne Hirsch appears in the Observing Memories Magazine.
Marianne Hirsch, former Director of the Center for the Study of Social Difference and co-director of past working groups including Women Mobilizing Memory, Reframing Gendered Violence, and Engendering the Archive was interviewed by the European Observatory on Memories (EUROM) in their Observing Memories Magazine. In the interview, Professor Hirsch spoke about the transmission of trauma across generations, the role of memory in social movements, and memory’s ability to strengthen democracy.
Reframing Gendered Violence Working Group Fellow Published in Griffith Asia Insights
Dr. Fiona Hukula wrote an article on gender-based violence in Papua New Guinea.
In the article, Dr. Fiona Hukula, Reframing Gendered Violence working group fellow, writes about the extremely high levels of violence against women in Papua New Guinea, the normalization of domestic violence, and the recent protests against gender-based violence. Dr. Hukula also highlights some potential solutions which could reduce gender-based violence in Papua New Guinea.
Jean Howard Receives the 2020 Presidential Teaching Award
The former CSSD director and current CSSD Executive Committee member is honored for outstanding teaching by faculty.
Jean Howard, George Delacorte Professor in the Humanities and former director of the Center for the Study of Social Difference (CSSD) has been selected for the 2020 Presidential Teaching Award for Outstanding Teaching by Faculty. The honor is reflective of a commitment to excellent and innovative teaching as recognized by the entire Columbia community.
To learn more about Jean Howard’s work at CSSD view her past working groups at the Center below:
Reframing Gendered Violence
Engendering the Archive
Women Mobilizing Memory
Former CSSD Director receives 2020 Faculty Mentoring Award
Marianne Hirsch is honored for exceptional commitment to faculty mentoring.
Marianne Hirsch, William Peterfield Trent Professor of English and Comparative Literature and former Center for the Study of Social Difference Director, is a recipient of the 2020 Faculty Mentoring Award, which recognizes senior faculty who have demonstrated an exceptional commitment to faculty mentoring.
To learn more about the award and other recipients click here.
To learn more about Marianne Hirsch’s work at CSSD check out her past working group pages below:
Lila Abu-Lughod cited by the New York Times Book Review
The former Reframing Gendered Violence co-director’s Do Muslim Women Need Saving? was referenced in a review of a new book on 21 Women Across the History of Islam.
Lila Abu-Lughod, former co-director of the Reframing Gendered Violence working group, had her work Do Muslim Women Need Saving cited in a New York Times book review of Hossein Kamaly’s new book A History of Islam in 21 Women.
Former CSSD Director Marianne Hirsch’s New Book Featured in Columbia News
School Photos in Liquid Time: Reframing Difference was co-authored by Leo Spitzer.
Former CSSD Director and project director of Women Mobilizing Memory, Marianne Hirsch, is interviewed about her new book, School Photos in Liquid Time: Reframing Difference, by Columbia News. She discusses the idea behind the book, her personal connection to the subject matter, the revealing nature of photographs, and her research on memory, amongst other things.
To read the whole interview, click here.
Sexual Citizens Featured in Bwog
Former Reframing Gendered Violence co-director discusses her joint publication with Shamus Khan.
At the book launch for Sexual Citizens: A Landmark Study of Sex, Power, and Assault on Campus, co-authors, Jennifer Hirsch, professor of sociomedical sciences and former co-director of CSSD working group, Reframing Gendered Violence, and Shamus Khan, professor of sociology, spoke about their inspiration for researching sexual assualt on campus and the conversations surrounding the topic. Bwog, the Columbia student news blog, covered the event.
To read about the full event, click here.
For more information on the book, click here.
Co-Authors of "Sexual Citizens" Interviewed by NPR
Reframing Gendered Violence co-director, Jennifer Hirsch, discusses her new book.
Jennifer Hirsch, professor of sociomedical sciences and former co-director of CSSD working group, Reframing Gendered Violence, and Shamus Khan, professor of sociology, talk about their recent publication, Sexual Citizens: A Landmark Study of Sex, Power, and Assault on Campus, with NPR. In the interview, Hirsch and Khan mention the overwhelming number of students who were open to sharing their personal experiences with sex, assault, and power dynamics.
Sexual Citizens aims to transform how individuals see and address the widespread problem of sexual assault on college campuses. For more information on the book, click here.
To read the full interview, click here.
New book by Reframing Gendered Violence Co-Director featured in Teen Vogue and WNYC
Jennifer Hirsch and Shamus Khan discuss their book, Sexual Citizens.
Jennifer Hirsch, professor of sociomedical sciences and former co-director of CSSD working group, Reframing Gendered Violence, and Shamus Khan, professor of sociology, recently discussed their book, Sexual Citizens: A Landmark Study of Sex, Power, and Assault on Campus, in a piece in Teen Vogue and on WNYC’s All of It with Alison Stewart.
To hear their interview on WNYC, click here.
“Sexual Citizens” Named One of Esquire Magazine’s “Best Books this Winter”
New book by former Reframing Gendered Violence co-director Jennifer Hirsch and Professor Shamus Khan receives praise after it’s debut.
Jennifer Hirsch, professor of sociomedical sciences and former co-director of CSSD working group Reframing Gendered Violence, and Shamus Khan, professor of sociology, recently published their book, Sexual Citizens: A Landmark Study of Sex, Power, and Assault on Campus, a study that attempts to transform how we see and address the widespread problem of sexual assault on college campuses. Their publication was named Esquire Magazine’s “Best Books this Winter.” The magazine praises the “clear, intersectional picture of the forces breeding a campus culture that bulldozes consent.”
For more information on the book, read here.
To view Esquire’s list, read here.