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Joan Wallach Scott

1941 - Today

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Joan Wallach Scott (born December 18, 1941) is an American historian of France with contributions in gender history. She is a professor emerita in the School of Social Science in the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey. Scott is known for her work in feminist history and gender theory, engaging post-structural theory on these topics. Geographically, her work focuses primarily on France, and thematically she deals with how power works, the relation between language and experience, and the role and practice of historians. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Joan Wallach Scott is the 392nd most popular historian (down from 307th in 2019), the 6,839th most popular biography from United States (down from 4,741st in 2019) and the 23rd most popular American Historian.

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Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Joan Wallach Scott ranks 392 out of 561. Before her are Domenico Losurdo, Jan T. Gross, Ronald Syme, Ehsan Yarshater, Zhao Rukuo, and Olena Apanovych. After her are Volodymyr Ivanovych Barvinok, Hugo Falcandus, Constantine Paparrigopoulos, Florian Cajori, George Finlay, and Michael Panaretos.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1941, Joan Wallach Scott ranks 386. Before her are Domenico Losurdo, Natalia Bessmertnova, Václav Mašek, Doug Rogers, Jessica Walter, and Anatoly Levchenko. After her are James Hansen, Uffe Ellemann-Jensen, Erkin Koray, Vittorio Messori, Epeli Nailatikau, and Sahar Khalifeh.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Joan Wallach Scott ranks 6,841 out of 20,380. Before her are Derek Luke (1974), John Jacob Abel (1857), Susan Kohner (1936), Bob Falkenburg (1926), Eva Angelina (1985), and John Hawkes (1959). After her are Rooney Mara (1985), Lynn Anderson (1947), Emerson Spencer (1906), Shea Whigham (1969), George Dole (1885), and Carol Morris (1936).

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Among HISTORIANS In United States

Among historians born in United States, Joan Wallach Scott ranks 23. Before her are Frederick Jackson Turner (1861), Efraim Zuroff (1948), Robert Darnton (1939), Donald Keene (1922), Richard N. Frye (1920), and Ernest Fenollosa (1853). After her are Stanley G. Payne (1934), Stephen Greenblatt (1943), Mary Ritter Beard (1876), Stephen E. Ambrose (1936), Daniel J. Boorstin (1914), and Charles A. Beard (1874).

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