Dr. Miriam Gleckman-Krut (she/her) is a College Fellow in Social Studies at Harvard University. She works at the intersection of the sociologies of gender/sexuality, race/ethnicity, statecraft, and law, with substantive interests in colonial and postcolonial histories, migration, epistemology, and violence.
Gleckman-Krut's dissertation and book project, "The Rainbow Nation and the Gays it Excludes," explores postcolonial statecraft in the context of increasingly polarized contemporary global politics around asylum and gay rights. The project has been supported by the American Sociological Association's Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant, by the Social Science Research Council's International Dissertation Research Fellowship, and by nine programs at the University of Michigan. A version of the dissertation’s fourth empirical chapter received the Outstanding Graduate Student Paper Award Honorable Mention from the Society for the Study of Social Problems Global Section and the Lester P. Monts Award for Outstanding Graduate Student Research on Africa from the University of Michigan’s African Studies Center.
She has also explored her research and teaching interests through collaborative projects on the sociological construction of knowledge on sexual violence, on sexual assault on college U.S. campuses, and on German efforts to evade responsibility for its colonial genocide in southern Africa (1904-1908).
Gleckman-Krut's dissertation and book project, "The Rainbow Nation and the Gays it Excludes," explores postcolonial statecraft in the context of increasingly polarized contemporary global politics around asylum and gay rights. The project has been supported by the American Sociological Association's Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant, by the Social Science Research Council's International Dissertation Research Fellowship, and by nine programs at the University of Michigan. A version of the dissertation’s fourth empirical chapter received the Outstanding Graduate Student Paper Award Honorable Mention from the Society for the Study of Social Problems Global Section and the Lester P. Monts Award for Outstanding Graduate Student Research on Africa from the University of Michigan’s African Studies Center.
She has also explored her research and teaching interests through collaborative projects on the sociological construction of knowledge on sexual violence, on sexual assault on college U.S. campuses, and on German efforts to evade responsibility for its colonial genocide in southern Africa (1904-1908).