In this series we celebrate and discuss the ways that scholars around campus teach complex gender and women’s studies concepts like feminisms, gender, sex, and intersectionality among others. A 30-45 minute discussion/presentation of pedagogies, challenges and controversies by the scholar is followed by a Q&A with the audience. After which we will celebrate with light refreshments.

Dr. Mel Stein is a feminist historian and interdisciplinary scholar specializing in race, gender, and sexuality in science and medicine. She is the author of Measuring Manhood: Race and the Science of Masculinity, 1830-1934 (University of Minnesota Press, 2015), an intersectional analysis of scientific racism in nineteenth and early twentieth century America that interrogates biomedical constructions of citizenship, investigates the relationship between racial and sexual sciences, and examines scientists’ attempts to offer medical solutions to the nation’s “race problems.” Her teaching and research interests include health and health disparities, racial thought, the cultural constructions of the body, the history of sexuality, African-American and gender history, feminist science studies, race and policing, and the politics of memory. 

Discussant- Dr. Anastasia Todd, is an Assistant Professor of Gender & Women’s Studies at UK.  She is the author of Cripping Girlhood (Forthcoming, University of Michigan Press). She teaches classes on feminist theory, affect theory, the body, and disability. 

Sponsored by the Department of Gender & Women’s Studies