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CFR Affiliated Scholars

Wan Yan Hai, former CFR affiliated scholar from China, gave a talk about AIDS and sexuality in China at USC. In March, he received a fellowship from Yale University to be a "Yale World Fellow" for the remainder of 2003. He was one of eighteen fellowship winners, from a pool of over five hundred scholars who were nominated for the fellowship. He joins former CFR affiliated scholar Dr. Michael Quinn, who is also currently an affiliated scholar at Yale.

Casey Charles, professor of English at the University of Montana and former affiliated scholar, recently published The Sharon Kowalski Case: Lesbian and Gay Rights on Trial. A gripping story of love and law, this book chronicles one of the true landmarks in the fight for the rights of same-sex partners, fully framed for the first time within its social, political, and historical contexts. Drawing on trial transcripts, medical records, newspaper archives, and personal interviews, Charles goes well beyond Karen Thompson’s own highly personal account in Why Can’t Sharon Kowalski Come Home? In the process, he brings to life emotions and personalities that dominated the courtroom dramas and illuminates the highly contested judgments emerging from supposedly objective authorities in journalism, medicine, and the law.


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CFR Affiliated Scholars Wan Yan Hai, former CFR affiliated scholar from China, gave a talk about AIDS and sexuality in China at USC. In March, he received a fellowship from Yale University to be a "Yale World Fellow" for the remainder of 2003. He was one of eighteen fellowship winners, from a pool of over five hundred scholars who were nominated for the fellowship. He joins former CFR affiliated scholar Dr. Michael Quinn, who is also currently an affiliated scholar at Yale. Casey Charles, professor of English at the University of Montana and former affiliated scholar, recently published The Sharon Kowalski Case: Lesbian and Gay Rights on Trial. A gripping story of love and law, this book chronicles one of the true landmarks in the fight for the rights of same-sex partners, fully framed for the first time within its social, political, and historical contexts. Drawing on trial transcripts, medical records, newspaper archives, and personal interviews, Charles goes well beyond Karen Thompson’s own highly personal account in Why Can’t Sharon Kowalski Come Home? In the process, he brings to life emotions and personalities that dominated the courtroom dramas and illuminates the highly contested judgments emerging from supposedly objective authorities in journalism, medicine, and the law.