Kadji Amin

Kadji Amin is Associate Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Emory University, and was a Cornell Society for the Humanities Fellow for 2023-4. He earned a PhD from Duke University and has held fellowships from the Mellon foundation and the Humanities Institute at Stony Brook University.

Kadji is the author of Disturbing Attachments: Genet, Modern Pederasty, and Queer History (Duke University Press, 2017), which won an Honorable Mention for the Alan Bray Memorial Award for best book in LGBT studies. This book is cited in various pages, such as our in-depth page of historic links between MAPs and LGBT groups, and our page on censorship.