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...proposed change has been long in the making. Since the beginning of women’s studies, issues of gender and sexuality have been integral to the discipline and are currently at the forefront of scholarship in the field. Even a glance at the Committee’s website shows that a huge number of the faculty affiliated with Committee have research interests in questions of gender and sexuality. In the last several years the overlap has become even more striking: Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures Bradley S. Epps, a member of the Committee, has published papers...
...peer institutions, including Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Princeton, Yale, Duke, University of Chicago and NYU, all have programs that include gender and/or sexuality in their titles. Scholarship in women’s studies has in recent decades turned toward an increased focus on the ways in which identities are socially constructed. Theories that today deconstruct the role of gender, race, sexuality and class identity, employ similar approaches as those initially used to explore the role of women. This includes the recognition that gender regulates the behavior of both men and women, and that it is consequently difficult to study women...
...Scholarship on women has always included perspectives of gender and sexuality in order to understand the historical and theoretical position of women. It is therefore not a coincidence that when a movement of students and faculty at Harvard tried to gain recognition for gender and sexuality studies as a valid discipline, the majority of the faculty members supportive of the initiative were already affiliated with CDWS...
...Legal scholarship, like all scholarship, can no longer be limited to the legal practices of one nation,” she said...
...addition to his “talent, integrity and vision, ” Koh’s outstanding international scholarship was one of many reasons he was suggested for the deanship, according to Kate Stith, a member of the search committee that recommended Koh for the job and a professor at Yale Law School...