Joan Wallach Scott

Joan W. Scott is Professor Emerita in the School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey. She previously taught at Brown University, where she was the founding director of the Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women. Her books include her classic, Gender and the Politics of History (1988, 2018), and, more recently, The Politics of The Veil (2007); Sex and Secularism (2019); and Knowledge, Power, and Academic Freedom (2019).