Joan Wallach Scott
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Joan Wallach Scott is an American historian of France with contributions in gender history. She is a professor emerita in the School of Social Science in the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey.
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Clifford GeertzAlso won Talcott Parsons PrizeH. Robert HorvitzAlso won Hans Sigrist Prize
Abderrahmane SissakoAlso won honorary doctor of Paris 8 University
Shirley Ann JacksonAlso won honorary doctor of Harvard University
Pierre RabhiAlso won Honorary doctor of the University of Liège
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Joan Wallach Scott is an American historian of France with contributions in gender history. She is a professor emerita in the School of Social Science in the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey. Scott is known for her work in feminist history and gender theory, engaging post-structural theory on these topics. Geographically, her work focuses primarily on France, and thematically she deals with how power works, the relation between language and experience, and the role and practice of historians. Her work grapples with theory's application to historical and current events, focusing on how terms are defined and how positions and identities are articulated.
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