Profile
Priscilla Yamin is the current chairperson of Hunter College CUNY - Women and Gender Studies Department. Her academic expertise is on politics, women in politics, and the role of marriage and family in the context of American politics. In her 2012 book “American Marriage: A Political Institution,” she examined matrimony’s historical and contemporary role as an institution that grants and withholds rights, including former slaves post-emancipation, people of color, women, immigrants, LGBT people, and low-income people.