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Mar. 17, 2023

heidi rhodes Receives 2023–24 Creative Capital Award for Book Project

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Jun. 2, 2022

In the Media: Jih-Fei Cheng Discusses Monkeypox and Homophobia in Slate

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Oct. 22, 2020

Visiting Lecturer Jessica Christian ’07 Connects the United States’ Past to Its Present

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Department of Feminist Gender and Sexuality Studies


March 17, 2023

heidi rhodes Receives 2023–24 Creative Capital Award for Book Project

The project, Vital Signs, “foregrounds an anti-ableist way of being, premised on relationality and interdependency, with special attention to form as part of sick/disabled practices for living differently.”

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June 2, 2022

In the Media: Jih-Fei Cheng Discusses Monkeypox and Homophobia in Slate

Jih-Fei Cheng, associate professor of feminist, gender, and sexuality studies, spoke to Slate about monkeypox and reporting that has focused on the disease’s spread among gay and bisexual men.

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October 22, 2020

Visiting Lecturer Jessica Christian ’07 Connects the United States’ Past to Its Present

For Visiting Lecturer of History Jessica Christian ’07, the past is always present. Although she’s teaching an introduction to US history course, the subjects she’s covering—which include disease, colonization, environmentalism, and politics—feel both modern and familiar in a year marked by a global pandemic, protests for racial justice, and an unprecedented presidential election season.

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June 16, 2020

In the Media: Jih-Fei Cheng Discusses the AIDS Epidemic as a Network of Overlapping Crises with The Body

Assistant Professor of Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Jih-Fei Cheng discussed the new book AIDS and the Distribution of Crises, which he coedited, with The Body. “AIDS can be thought of as a culmination of a certain historical moment, if we want to think about the ’80s and early ’90s,” Cheng said.

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