CSGS Faculty Book Party
The Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality is grateful to our faculty affiliates from across departments, divisions and schools who generously contribute their time and energies to the Center and its continued development.
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Please join us on Friday, May 18 as we celebrate recent books by some of the CSGS’s amazing faculty affiliates including:
Leora Auslander and Tara Zahra (History)
Shadi Bartsch-Zimmer (Classics)
Orit Bashkin (Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations)
Kathleen Belew (History)
Adrienne Brown (English)
Jane Dailey (History/Law)
Alireza Doostdar (Divinity)
Anastasia Giannakidou (Linguistics)
Amy Lippert (History)
Jonathan Lyon (History)
Deborah Nelson (English)
Larry Norman (Romance Languages and Literatures)
Martha Nussbaum (Law/Philosophy)
Ada Palmer (History)
Lucy Pick (Divinity)
David Simon (English)
Free and open to the public.
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