Jasbir K. Puar

Jasbir K. Puar is Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies at Rutgers University. She is the author of the award-winning books The Right to Maim: Debility, Capacity, Disability (2017); and Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Times (2007), which has been translated into Spanish and French and re-issued in an expanded version for its 10th anniversary (2017). In 2019 she was awarded the Kessler from the Center for Gay and Lesbian Studies (CLAGS), given yearly to scholars and activists whose work has significantly impacted queer research and organizing.