2025 Moe Visiting LectureshipGender, Women, and Sexuality Studies

The Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies Program is delighted to welcome Dr. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein to campus for the 2025 Moe Visiting lecture.

Dr. Prescod-Weinstein is presenting a lecture on Wednesday, March 19 at 7:30 p.m. in Alumni Hall.
The lecture is free and open to the public.

Dr. Prescod-Weinstein is an assistant professor of physics and astronomy and core faculty in women’s and gender studies at the University of New Hampshire. She is also a columnist for New Scientist and Physics World. Her research in theoretical physics focuses on cosmology, neutron stars, and dark matter. She also does research in Black feminist science, technology, and society studies.

Nature recognized her as one of 10 people who shaped science in 2020, and Essence magazine named her one of “15 Black Women Who Are Paving the Way in STEM and Breaking Barriers.” A cofounder of Particles for Justice, she received the 2017 LGBT+ Physicists Acknowledgement of Excellence Award for her contributions to improving conditions for marginalized people in physics and the 2021 American Physical Society Edward A. Bouchet Award for her contributions to particle cosmology. In 2022 she launched the Cite Black Women+ in Physics and Astronomy Bibliography.

The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred, her book on science for general audiences, won a 2021 Los Angeles Times Book Prize, a 2022 PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Literary Award, and the 2022 Phi Beta Kappa Award for Science. The book was also a finalist for a 2021 New England Book Award, a 2021 Brooklyn Public Library Literary Prize, and the 2022 PEN/EO Wilson Literary Science Writing Award, in addition to being longlisted for the 2022 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature. Dr. Prescod-Weinstein’s next book, The Edge of Space-Time, is under contract with Pantheon Books.

The Moe Visiting Lectureship is endowed by Karin and Robert Moe in honor of their daughter, Kris Burke Moe, class of 1984. Since its inaugural year in 2000, the Moe Lectureship has allowed GWSS to bring top feminist scholars to the Gustavus community. The Moe Lectures represent the interdisciplinary and intersectional nature of the Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies program, bringing expertise from various field including anthropology, cultural studies, biology, literature, philosophy, history, and law.