Faculty Updates
WGST Faculty 2017
Alison M. Jaggar was formally inducted as a fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences at a ceremony held in Cambridge, Massachusetts on October 7, 2017. She co-authored the chapter 鈥淢oral Justification in an Unjust World鈥 with Theresa W. Tobin in , which was released this past May.
This summer, Dr. Jaggar gave several keynote talks, including "Complicity and Migrant Domestic Labor,鈥 at a conference celebrating the work of Iris M. Young at the Centre de Philosophie Contemporaine de la Sorbonne; "Other Worlds are Possible, but Which are Gender Just?鈥 at the VIII Meetings on Ethics and Political Philosophy at the University of Minho (Portugal); "Feminist Reflections on Culture, Society and Care,鈥 at the Women and Gender Studies conference on Law, Philosophy, Ethics and Social Science at Manchester Metropolitan University. This month, she presented the talk "Sexism and Harassment in Academia,鈥 at the Women and Gender Studies conference at the University of Costa Rica.
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Deepti Misri gave a talk at the听Religion, Gender and the Politics of State Security conference in September at Yale University. She also co-organized a day-long feminist pre-conference on "Gender, Sexuality, and Occupation" at the Annual South Asia Conference, held last month in Wisconsin.
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Robert Wyrod was recognized by the American Sociological Association at their annual meeting in August, receiving two awards for his book . He is the recipient of both the 2017 Sex and Gender Section Distinguished Book Award, Honorable Mention; and 2017 Human Rights Section Gordon Hirabayashi Human Rights Book Award, Honorable Mention.
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