Leah DeVun
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Prof @RutgersU and union member. Author | The Shape of Sex: Nonbinary Gender From Genesis to the Renaissance @ColumbiaUP
Brooklyn, NY
Joined January 2019
Announcing my book, The Shape of Sex: Nonbinary Gender From Genesis to the Renaissance, now available from @ColumbiaUP! Much gratitude to everyone who made this possible! Thanks #MedievalTwitter for spreading the word!
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2025-26 Stipend: $98K Research account: $6,000 per year Moving expenses and new equipment purchases: $9K (one-time) Mellon Fellowship of Scholars in the Humanities Postdoctoral Opportunity at Stanford
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The Stanford Humanities Center invites applications for the Mellon Fellowship of Scholars in the Humanities, a unique opportunity for recent PhD re...
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TODAY! 5 PM ET @AARWeb's webinar about QTR: A Journal of Trans and Queer Studies in Religion, a new @DukePress journal, through generous support of @HLuceFdn (s/o @jvanantw!), UCHRI, & the Holstein and Community Chair in Religious Studies held by the one & only @melissamwilcox!
Today at 5 PM ET - Join @AARWeb and co-editors @JosephAMarchal1 & @melissamwilcox for a live webinar celebrating the upcoming launch of QTR: A Journal of Trans & Queer Studies in Religion. Register here: https://t.co/8yGUv8F4Wa More info: https://t.co/L1QtU5sIfM
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‘It’s strange to think of the mortality of institutions. Things that are the product of many lifetimes ending in one’s own. How easily and cavalierly the works of decades and centuries are demolished.’ Michael Hofmann on the blog: https://t.co/j0sdAj1RDf
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We are a small part of a shrinking thing, tail to a dwindling dog, or that thing that, in Yeats, is fastened to the...
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Are you a historian? Are you able to come to Laramie, WY this month to talk about your research (expenses paid + an honorarium)? If you are interested in this exciting, madcap opportunity to help me spend a pot of money before it is lit on fire, get in touch!
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And don't forget The Shape of Sex by @DevunLeah, winner of the Haskins Medal from @MedievalAcademy and the Book Award for Excellence in Historical Studies from the @AARWeb. 20% off code New20 applies. @ColumbiaUP
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Please consider joining the over 200 historians working with @SFNDHE to ask @AHAhistorians to take a bold new leadership path in this time of crisis in #HigherEd. #twitterstorians
Join @SFNDHE's letter to the @AHAhistorians asking the Council to prioritize leadership with a transformative vision for #highered in this time of deep crisis. https://t.co/MwKX4GPjQD
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Join @SFNDHE's letter to the @AHAhistorians asking the Council to prioritize leadership with a transformative vision for #highered in this time of deep crisis. https://t.co/MwKX4GPjQD
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March 19, 2024 American Historical Association Council 400 A Street SE Washington, DC 20003 Dear Professor Glymph, Professor Muir, President Vinson, Professor Hyde, Professor Thomas, Professor...
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Very proud to have The Shape of Sex among the Award of Excellence winners! Thank you to @AARWeb @ColumbiaUP @RUHistoryDept and shout out to fellow awardee @MaxStrassfeld for Trans Talmud!
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Thrilled that this is finally coming out! Thank you @mckenziewark for editing, @DukePress for publishing, and Torrey Peters and @gp_jls for the endorsements. https://t.co/GRZnsPTMx3
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Thank you @ColumbiaUP for publishing The Shape of Sex and supporting my work and scholarship in LGBTQ studies in general!
So thrilled to announce that @DevunLeah has won the #HaskinsMedal from the @MedievalAcademy: https://t.co/yXeYqZB185 Huge congratulations, Leah! @ColumbiaUP
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Incredibly honored to receive the Haskins Medal from @MedievalAcademy, congrats to other prize winners @hermitofhampole @ProfBetancourt Andrea Nanetti, Jake Stattel, Alison Perchuk, Amanda Luyster, Miriah Min, & Jamie Kreiner. Thanks @ColumbiaUP @RutgersU @RUHistoryDept!
We are very pleased to announce the winners of the 2024 Medieval Academy of America Publication Prizes: https://t.co/Gb2t8p5XKP
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We are pleased to announce that @DevunLeah's THE SHAPE OF SEX is the Winner of the 2023 Margaret W. Rossiter History of Women in Science Prize from @hssonline. Read more about the award at https://t.co/hcYIFzEk3V.
#BookAward #AwardWinner #GenderStudies #NonBinary #LGBTQ
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Honored to be awarded the Rossiter Prize for The Shape of Sex for best book on gender in science! Proud to join scholars I admire @beansvelocci @monicaMedHist @SharonStrocchia @HistoryElaine & others! Thank you @ColumbiaUP & @hssonline! @RutgersU #twitterstorians #nonbinary
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ISSG is thrilled to partner with our colleagues at Columbia French & @Columbia_MF on a speaker series this year. First up, we will welcome Prof. Leah DeVun (@DevunLeah) on 10/13 @ 4PM for "The Past and Future of Nonbinary History." More info & RSVP: https://t.co/hIVOVnOSu7
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Listen to @DevunLeah in conversation with Leo Valdes on this episode of Off the Page Podcast about THE SHAPE OF SEX. https://t.co/WYx0HcOGab
@NewBooksNetwork #ListenUP #PrideMonth2023 #LGBTLiterature #GenderStudies
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After YEARS of planning and postponing, it was a joy to spend the last few days learning in community at the @FolgerResearch Global Early Modern Trans Studies Symposium. Thanks to my co-organizers @Bibliophilenick @badinfinity2 Will Fisher & Melissa Sanchez, to @owilliamsdc …
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Great article on strikes in higher ed at Temple & Rutgers via @nplusonemag
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