Joan Wallach Scott

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.

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

Occupation

historian / university teacher / labor historian / writer

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

Motto

Private

• 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)

Tags

• New York
• historian
• university teacher
• labor historian

Last updated

2026-06-02

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