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Joan Wallach Scott

ジョーン・スコット　/　じょーん・すこっと

American historian

December 18, 1941 (age 84)　・　Brooklyn, New York, United States

New York
historian
university teacher
labor historian

My Take

What impresses me most about Joan Wallach Scott is that she did not merely add to history, she changed how we read it. By bringing gender in as a category of analysis and pulling post-structural theory into French history, she forced the discipline to question its own assumptions. That is harder and braver than it sounds. Honorary doctorates from Harvard and Liège and France's Legion of Honour all confirm a rare reach across the Atlantic. To me the throughline is intellectual stubbornness in the best sense, a refusal to let received wisdom go unexamined, sustained well past the age most retire.

Overview

Joan Wallach Scott (born December 18, 1941) 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.

Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.

1. Profile

Name (English): Joan Wallach Scott
Name (Japanese): ジョーン・スコット
Reading: じょーん・すこっと
Born: December 18, 1941 (age 84)
Zodiac / Chinese zodiac: Sagittarius / Snake
Origin: Brooklyn, New York, United States
Blood type: Private
Height: Private
Agency: Private
Occupation: historian / university teacher / labor historian / writer

2. Background

Elementary school: Private
Junior high: Private
High school: Private
University: University of Wisconsin–Madison

Awards & achievements

2016 Talcott Parsons Prize
1974 Herbert Baxter Adams Prize
2007 honorary doctor of Harvard University
1999 Hans Sigrist Prize
2022 Honorary doctor of the University of Liège
2022 honorary doctor of Paris 8 University
Knight of the Legion of Honour
2017 Knight of the Legion of Honour

3. Relationships

Spouse: Private
Children: Private
Parents: Private
Siblings: Private

4. Personality

Motto

Private

6. Links

Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B8%E3%83%A7%E3%83%BC%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B9%E3%82%B3%E3%83%83%E3%83%88%20(%E6%AD%B4%E5%8F%B2%E5%AD%A6%E8%80%85)

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