Society of Scholars
The Society of Scholars is an intellectual community of humanists of diverse generations, academic ranks, and departmental affiliations who contribute to and learn from one another’s work. Each year, approximately eight faculty and three dissertation research fellowships support members of the Society of Scholars. Scholars in year-long residence at the University of Washington may be invited to participate as well. The group meets biweekly throughout the year to discuss their research in progress.
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2024 - 2025 Society of Scholars
2018 - 2019 Society of Scholars Fellow
Akanksha Misra (she/her/hers)
Sex Education and Sexual Citizenship in Schools in India and Turkey
My research studies sex education anEd everyday mechanisms of bodily regulation in schools in India and Turkey. Through observation of middle school life and interviews with teachers, counselors, activists, and policy experts in Istanbul and Delhi, it considers how formal schooling shapes the sexual body while creating heterosexual, “modern” citizens, in ways which are deeply entwined with larger social, economic, and political-nationalist forces. I also explore how teachers negotiate the violent effects of this process.