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Todd Reeser, a professor in the Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences’ Department of French and Italian, was named as a 2025 chair by France’s Institut du Genre.
As a chairholder, Reeser will collaborate on teaching in the University of Paris system, one of the institute’s 34 partner institutions, and conduct research for a new book.
The Gender Institute is a scientific interest group founded in 2012 by the Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences of the French National Centre for Scientific Research.
Reeser, also associate dean for faculty affairs in the Dietrich School, conducts research at the intersection of French and gender and sexuality studies. He previously served as director of the school’s Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies Program.