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48
Citations
54155
World Ranking
3018
National Ranking
1460

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2008 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Overview

Joan Wallach Scott is affiliated with the Institute for Advanced Study in the United States. Their research spans several interdisciplinary fields, with a focus on areas such as sociology and political science, political science and international relations, history, gender studies, and conservation. Key topics addressed in their work include historical gender and feminism studies, academic freedom and politics, French historical and cultural studies, gender, sexuality, and education, digital and traditional archives management, philosophy, history, and historiography, and anthropological studies and insights.

The frequent venues for their publications reflect their range of academic interests. These venues include History of the Present, Feminist Theory, Nouvelles Questions Féministes, Daedalus, and albuquerque revista de história.

Scott has published various papers, notable recent works include:

  • The Political Uses of History (2023), published in Fronteiras Revista Catarinense de História
  • Gênero (2021), published in albuquerque revista de história
  • Academic Freedom & the Politics of the University (2024), published in Daedalus

In addition to articles, Scott's book publications include "The Long Year" (2022), released by Columbia University Press.

Frequent collaborators in their research include Ethan Kleinberg, Gary Wilder, Graziela Schneider Urso, Thomas J. Sugrue, and Caitlin Zaloom, highlighting interdisciplinary and collaborative approaches in their scholarly work.

Scott's contributions to academic communities have been recognized with awards such as the Fellowship of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2008.

Best Publications

  • Gênero: uma categoria útil de análise histórica

    Joan Scott

  • Gender: A Useful Category of Historical Analysis

    Joan W. Scott

  • Gender and the politics of history

    Joan Wallach Scott

  • El género : una categoría útil para el análisis histórico

    Joan W. Scott

  • The evidence of experience

    Joan W. Scott

  • The Politics of the Veil

    Joan Wallach Scott

  • Women, Work and Family

    Louise A. Tilly;Joan Wallach Scott

  • Feminists Theorize the Political

    Judith P. Butler;Joan Wallach Scott

  • Only Paradoxes to Offer

    Joan Wallach Scott

  • Deconstructing Equality-Versus-Difference : or, The Uses of Poststructuralist Theory for Feminism

    Joan W. Scott

  • O enigma da igualdade

    Joan W. Scott

  • Only Paradoxes to Offer: French Feminists and the Rights of Man

    Joan Wallach Scott

  • A INVISIBILIDADE DA EXPERIÊNCIA

    Joan W. Scott;Tradução: Lúcia Haddad;Revisão Técnica: Marina Maluf

  • La mujer trabajadora en el siglo XIX

    Joan W. Scott

  • The Glassworkers of Carmaux: French Craftsmen and Political Action in a Nineteenth-Century City

    Joan Wallach Scott

  • Fantasy Echo: History and the Construction of Identity

    Joan Wallach Scott

  • Genre : Une catégorie utile d'analyse historique

    Joan Scott;Éléni Varikas

  • Women's Work and the Family in Nineteenth-Century Europe

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  • Gender: Still a Useful Category of Analysis?:

    Joan Wallach Scott

  • Multiculturalism and the Politics of Identity

    Joan W. Scott

  • The Fantasy of Feminist History

    Joan Wallach Scott

  • Spatially-explicit simulation of the effect of prescribed burning on fire regimes and plant extinctions in shrublands typical of south-eastern Australia

    R.A. Bradstock;M. Bedward;B.J. Kenny;J. Scott

  • Women's work and European fertility patterns.

    Louise A. Tilly;Joan W. Scott;Miriam Cohen

  • Gender: Eine nützliche Kategorie der historischen Analyse

    Joan W. Scott

  • Women, Work and Family

    Bettina Bradbury;Louise A. Tilly;Joan W. Scott

Frequent Co-Authors

Judith Butler
Judith Butler University of California, Berkeley
Paula England
Paula England New York University Abu Dhabi
Peter Laslett
Peter Laslett University of Cambridge
Peter Burke
Peter Burke University of California, Riverside
Angela McRobbie
Angela McRobbie Goldsmiths University of London

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