Congratulations to Distinguished Visiting Professor of Women's, Gender, & Sexuality Studies at Barnard College, Lisa Duggan, for winning the 2026 David R. Kessler Award. Professor Duggan has been selected to give the 2026 David R. Kessler Lecture. Duggan is the 34th winner of the Kessler Award, which honors sustained achievement in LGBTQ Studies.
Please save the date: Friday, November 13, 2026 at 6:30PM at the CUNY Graduate Center. Register to attend the Kessler lecture here
Lisa Duggan is a journalist, activist, and professor. She is author of Sapphic Slashers: Sex, Violence and American Modernity; Twilight of Equality? Neoliberalism, Cultural Politics and the Attack on Democracy, and Mean Girl: Ayn Rand and Neoliberal Greed. She is co-author with Nan Hunter of Sex Wars: Sexual Dissent and Political Culture and co-editor with Lauren Berlant of Our Monica, Ourselves: The Clinton Affair and National Interest. She is also co-editor with Curtis Marez of the University of California Press Series American Studies Now. She served as president of the American Studies Association during 2013-2014. Her substack, Commie Pinko Queer, can be found at lisaduggan.substack.com.
