Maya Jasanoff
Guest Speaker
Professional affiliation
X. D. and Nancy Yang Professor of the Arts and Sciences, Harvard University
Full Biography
Maya Jasanoff is the X. D. and Nancy Yang Professor of the Arts and Sciences at Harvard University. She is the author of the prize-winning books Edge of Empire, Liberty’s Exiles, which received the 2012 National Book Critics Circle Award for Non-Fiction and the George Washington Book Prize, and The Dawn Watch: Joseph Conrad in a Global World, which won the 2018 Cundill Prize in History. A 2013 Guggenheim Fellow, Jasanoff won the 2017 Windham-Campbell Prize for Nonfiction. She is a frequent contributor to publications including The New Yorker and The Guardian, and is Chair of judges for the 2021 Booker Prize
