Joan Wallach Scott

In a recent op-ed, Joan Scott, Professor Emerita in the School of Social Science, explains how the recent and widely-celebrated French constitutional amendment securing women's access to abortion falls short of full equality.

Natalie Zemon Davis, Member (1978) in the School of Social Science and one of the pioneering historians of her time and ours, died in Toronto on October 21 at the age of 94.

By Joan Wallach Scott, Professor Emerita in the School of Social Science: 

"[The Hamline case] is not an example of any tension between diversity and academic freedom, but of the confusion between fair treatment of minority students (respect and care for their well-being) and capitulation to religious censorship. The one does not require the other."

Joan Wallach Scott, Professor Emerita in the School of Social Science, has been awarded an honorary doctorate from Université Paris 8.

By Joan Wallach Scott, Professor Emerita in the School of Social Science:

"In his recent essay in these pages on the vexed question of 'presentism' in the discipline of history, David Bell offers a soothing alternative to the American Historical Association president James Sweet’s clumsy dismissal of 'presentism' as a deviation from the true path of historical scholarship."

H-France Salon has published a series of tributes in honor of Natalie Zemon Davis, acclaimed early modern historian and former Member (1978) in the School of Social Science, on the occasion of her ninetieth birthday. The tributes were originally...

Listen to the BBC Radio 3 broadcast by Director's Visitor (2018) Sally Marlow, who interviews IAS Director Robbert Dijkgraaf, and Professors Joan Wallach Scott, Freeman J. Dyson, Nima Arkani-Hamed, and Myles W. Jackson.

On Friday, April 26, a workshop in honor of pioneering historian Natalie Zemon Davis’s 90th birthday featured talks by Professors Francesca Trivellato and Joan Wallach Scott; Trustee Lorraine Daston; and honoree Natalie Zemon Davis, past Member...

Joan Wallach Scott, Professor Emerita in the School of Social Science, will give the Third Annual Ruth Benedict Lectures, presented by the Columbia University Department of Anthropology.

Scott's week-long series, "On the Judgment of History," will...