Scholars Forum: Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar – Dr. Thomas W. Laqueur

Dr. Thomas W. Laqueur is the the Fawcett Distinguished Professor of History at UC, Berkeley, and specializes in the cultural history of the body, and in the history of humanitarianism and of popular religion and literacy. His books include Work of the Dead; Solitary Sex; Making Sex; and Religion and Respectability. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a member of the American Philosophical Society.