Students enrolled in the Feminist Theory course taught by Dr. Rae Aumiller at the Institute for the Study of Sexuality and Gender (ISSG) at Columbia University, have created a blog centered around "Feminist Suspension."
Elya Assayag is the winner of the 2024 Elaine Combs-Schilling Memorial Fellowship.
Convened by Dr. Chen Wang (Adjunct Associate Research Scientist in the Department of Biological Sciences, Columbia University) the "Sex, Gender, and Everything in Between" symposium was held virtually on June 29, 2023 and brought together experts in the field for an interdisciplinary conversation about sex, gender, and everything in between.
Jack Halberstam, the David Feinson Professor of the Humanities, Department of English and Comparative Literature and Director of the Institute the Study of Gender & Sexuality (ISSG) has been named a 2024 Guggenheim Fellow.
ISSG is thrilled to share that Affiliated Faculty Member Camille Robcis (History & French) is the recipient of the 2024 Frantz Fanon Prize for Outstanding Book in Caribbean Thought for her recent book, Disalienation: Politics, Philosophy, and Radical Psychiatry in Postwar France (University of Chicago Press, 2021). This award, given annually by the Caribbean Philosophical Association, recognizes up to three works in or of special interest to Caribbean thought.
The 2023 Vision and Difference Symposium, hosted by the Institute for the Study of Sexuality and Gender at Columbia University, brought together an interdisciplinary cohort to explore the evolution of feminist and queer theories and practices of visuality over the last decades of the 20th century to the present.
Professor Lila Abu-Lughod, ISSG Core Faculty Member and Faculty in the Department of Anthropology, was recently profiled in the Columbia Journal to celebrate the tenth anniversary of her book, Do Muslim Women Need Saving?.
