Past Braithwaite Lectures

2023

Kareem Khubchandani (aka Vagistan) is an educator, scholar, and artist invested in feminist, queer, and trans everyday-aesthetics, particularly in South Asia and its diaspora.

2022

Beth Ritchie, Professor of Criminology, Law & Justice, and African American Studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

2020

Charlene Carruthers is a strategist, writer and leading community organizer in today’s movement for Black liberation. She is the founder of the Chicago Center for Leadership and Transformation and author of Unapologetic: A Black, Queer and Feminist Mandate for Radical Movements.

2019

Wendy Hui Kyong Chun is Simon Fraser University’s Canada 150 Research Chair in New Media, Professor in the School of Communication, and Director of the Digital Democracies Institute. 

2018

Shatema Threadcraft, Associate Professor of Government at Dartmouth University, "Spectacular Black Death: Lynching, Lethal Police Violence and the Black Female Body"

2017

Arlene Stein, Professor of Sociology at Rutgers University and director of their Institute for Research on Women, "All the Young Dudes"

2016

Rhodessa Jones, founder of The Medea Project: Theater For Incarcerated Women, "A Woman for the 21st Century"

2015

Nicole Georges, author of "Calling Dr. Laura: A Graphic Memoir"

2015

A.K. Summers, Author of, "Pregnant Butch: Nine Long Months Spent in Drag"

2014

Robyn Wiegman, Professor of Literature and Women's Studies at Duke University, "Without Guarantee: On the unknown futures of Gender, Sexuality and Women's Studies"

2013

Matt Richardson, Associate Professor of English and African and African Diaspora Studies, University of Texas at Austin, "The Queer Limit of Black Memory"

2012

Sharon Marcus, Orlando Harriman Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, "The Double Life of Female Celebrity"

2011

Carla Freeman, Winship Distinguished Research Professor in Anthropology and Women's Studies at Emory University, "Enterprising Selves"

2010

Kathy Davis, senior researcher at the Institute of History and Culture at Utrecht University,  "Feminism as Traveling Theory: the Case of Our Bodies, Ourselves"

2009

Annelise Orleck, Professor of History, Dartmouth University, "What If Poor Women Ran the World?: Some Lessons from Las Vegas"

2008

Pamela Stone, Professor of Sociology at Hunter College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, "Women, Careers and Family:The Rhetoric and Reality of ‘Opting Out'"

2007

Regina Barreca, Professor of English at the University of Connecticut:"Harass is One Word: Laughter, Feminism, and the Importance of Making Yourself Heard"

2006

Lisa Duggan, Associate Professor of American Studies and Gender and Sexuality Studies, New York University: "The Gay Marriage Blues, or, Same Sex Adultery, Bigamy, Gold Digging, and Divorce"

2005

Laurie Kahn Leavitt, filmmaker, introducing Tupperware! at the Cohen Forum

2004

Jane Espenson, writer and producer (The Gilmore Girls, Ellen, Buffy the Vampire Slayer), keynote speaker at conference on "Women, Gender, and Television"

2003

Stacy Wolf, Associate Professor of Theatre and Dance, University of Texas at Austin: "'Wouldn't it be loverly?' Broadway Musicals, Feminism and Queer Scholarship"

2002

Patricia Yancey Martin, Daisy Parker Flory Professor of Sociology, Florida State University: "Doing Work, Doing Gender: Women and Men Construct Each Other on the Job"

2001

Susan Cahn, Associate Professor of History, SUNY, Buffalo: "Feminism and Sport"

2000

Joyce Follet, Producer, Step by Step: "Step by Step: Building a Feminist Movement, 1941-1877"

1999

Maureen Fitzgerald, Assistant Professor of American Studies, W&M: "Searching for Catholic Women's Agency: Reflections on Research, Writing and Subjectivity"

1998

Leisa Meyer, Associate Professor of History, W&M: "Contesting G.I. Jane:The Challenges of a Gender-Integrated Military"

1997

Helen Cam Walker, Associate Professor of History, W&M: "Lyon and the Ladies: the Early History of Women at William & Mary"