Caroline Light, Director of Undergraduate Studies, Lecturer on Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality

Caroline Light is the Director of Undergraduate Studies at Harvard University and Lecturer on Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality at Harvard College. Her research brings historical, gender / ethnic studies, and critical race theoretical lenses to an analysis of gun violence during the past four decades. She is the author of Stand Your Ground: A History of American’s Love Affair with Lethal Self-defense from Beacon Press (2017) and That Pride of Race and Character: The Roots of Jewish Benevolence in the Jim Crow South, from New York University Press (2014). Light has a doctorate in history, with particular focus on gender, race, and sexuality and migration in the late nineteenth and early twentieth-century U.S.

Research Assistant Requirements: Professor Light is looking for an assistant with an openness to multiple research methods and a willingness to work across the disciplines in search of answers to our nation’s persistent crisis of intersectional violence.