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Kendall Thomas | #ColumbiaPride

my name is Kendall Thomas I'm the Nash professor of law and the director of the Center for the Study of law and culture the Center for the study of law and

culture at Columbia is a platform for research and teaching and public events that explore the interaction between law and the arts anthropological and sociological conceptions of culture and

more broadly the idea of culture as the realm of our social life in which we engage in the active work of making things mean how does law in addition to resolving disputes and structuring

social life operate as one of the central sites for the production of meaning for individuals and for groups and the broader society

Professor Kendall Thomas has had a long career at Columbia working to understand the policies that shape queer lives. The Nash Professor of Law and co-founder and director of the Center for the Study of Law and Culture at Columbia Law School, Thomas has been instrumental in the annual Queer Disruptions conference and is working to explore culture as the site upon which we build the architecture of our lives. #PrideofLions