Sexual Citizens: A study of sexual assault on campus with Shamus Khan, Professor of Sociology and American Studies at Princeton University

CEE General Seminar  

Sexual Citizens: A study of sexual assault on campus, Jennifer S. Hirsch and Shamus Khan, WW Norton & Co

Sciences Po, Via Zoom, Compulsory Registration

This talk draws upon Sexual Citizens, by Jennifer S. Hirsch and Shamus Khan. Through intimate portraits of life and sex among today’s college students, it presents an entirely new way to understand sexual assault. Transcending current debates about consent, predators in a “hunting ground,” or the dangers of hooking up, Sexual Citizens reveals the social ecosystem that makes sexual assault a predictable element of life on a college campus. The concepts of sexual projects, sexual citizenship, and sexual geographies, provide a new language for understanding the forces that shape young people’s sexual relationships. The result transforms our understanding of sexual assault and provides a new roadmap for how to address it.

Speaker

Shamus Khan, Professor of Sociology and American Studies at Princeton University

Shamus Khan writes on culture, inequality, gender, and elites. He is the author of over 100 articles, books, and essays, including Privilege: The Making of an Adolescent Elite at St. Paul’s School (Princeton), The Practice of Research (Oxford, with Dana Fisher), Approaches to Ethnography: Modes of Representation and Analysis in Participant Observation (Oxford, with Colin Jerolmack), and Sexual Citizens: A Landmark Study of Sex, Power, and Assault on Campus (W.W. Norton, with Jennifer Hirsch). He co-directed the ethnographic component of SHIFT, a multi-year study of sexual health and sexual violence at Columbia University. He directed the working group on the political influence of economic elites at the Russell Sage Foundation, co-founded “The Middle Range” at Columbia University Press, and served as the editor of the journal Public Culture. He writes regularly for the popular press such as the New Yorker, the New York Times, Washington Post, and has served as a columnist for Time Magazine. In 2016 he was awarded Columbia University’s highest teaching honor, the Presidential Teaching Award, and in 2018 he was awarded the Hans L. Zetterberg Prize from Uppsala University in Sweden for “the best sociologist under 40”. 

Discussion

Emeline Fourment, Université de Genève and Associate Researcher at Sciences Po, CEE 

Sandrine Lefranc, Sciences Po, CEE, InSHS, CNRS 

Chair

Bruno Cousin, Sciences Po, CEE 

For more information: contact.cee@sciencespo.fr

Compulsory Registration