Prof @RutgersU and union member. Author | The Shape of Sex: Nonbinary Gender From Genesis to the Renaissance @ColumbiaUP
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28 May 2021
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 jobs.chronicle.com/job/37698…
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5 Apr 2024
‘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:
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4 Apr 2024
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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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.
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14 Feb 2024
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!
14 Feb 2024
Announcing the 2022 and 2023 #AARBookAward winners! mailchi.mp/aarweb/2022-2023-…
ALT 15 book covers against a backdrop of a bookshelf representing the winning titles of AAR's 2022 and 2023 book awards
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17 Jan 2024
Thrilled that this is finally coming out! Thank you
@mckenziewark for editing, @DukePress for publishing, and Torrey Peters and @gp_jls for the endorsements.
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16 Jan 2024
Thank you @ColumbiaUP for publishing The Shape of Sex and supporting my work and scholarship in LGBTQ studies in general!
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16 Jan 2024
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!
16 Jan 2024
We are very pleased to announce the winners of the 2024 Medieval Academy of America Publication Prizes:
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7 Dec 2023
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 buff.ly/3N8RT2D. #BookAward #AwardWinner #GenderStudies #NonBinary #LGBTQ
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13 Nov 2023
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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27 Sep 2023
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: tinyurl.com/2bjxt3j5
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20 Jun 2023
Listen to @DevunLeah in conversation with Leo Valdes on this episode of Off the Page Podcast about THE SHAPE OF SEX. buff.ly/3Cvytz9 @NewBooksNetwork #ListenUP #PrideMonth2023 #LGBTLiterature #GenderStudies
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21 May 2023
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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19 Apr 2023
Great article on strikes in higher ed at Temple & Rutgers via @nplusonemag nplusonemag.com/online-only/…
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25 Feb 2023
LESBIAN LAND PHOTOGRAPHY Exhibition & Readings for @WomensHistory11 at @StonewallMuseum & Archives with @LeahDeVun @FranLebowitz @CharlayneGrenci @MarilynVolker bit.ly/3EyS7vp
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