13 Facts About Sander Gilman

Sander Gilman is known for his contributions to Jewish studies and the history of medicine.

Sander Gilman is the author or editor of over one hundred books.

In particular, Sander Gilman investigates the constellations of medical, social, and political discourse that emerge at certain historical junctures.

Sander Gilman was a professor at Cornell University, then moving to the University of Chicago for six years.

Sander Gilman was then at the University of Illinois at Chicago for four years, founding its Program in Jewish Studies.

Sander Gilman served as professor of psychiatry and was a member of the Psychoanalytic Institute at Emory.

Sander Gilman has been a visiting professor at numerous universities in North America, South Africa, The United Kingdom, Germany, Israel, China, and New Zealand.

Sander Gilman was president of the Modern Language Association in 1995.

Sander Gilman has been awarded a Doctor of Laws at the University of Toronto in 1997, elected an honorary professor of the Free University of Berlin, made an honorary member of the American Psychoanalytic Association in 2008 and made a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Sander Gilman wrote the basic study of the visual stereotyping of the mentally ill, Seeing the Insane, published by John Wiley and Sons in 1982 as well as the standard study of Jewish Self-Hatred, the title of his Johns Hopkins University Press monograph of 1986, which is still in print.

Sander Gilman has examined Sigmund Freud, addressing the question of what role, if any, was played by Freud's Jewish origins in his composition of the psychoanalytic corpus.

Sander Gilman's thesis concerning this subject is that the prejudices of biology in the nineteenth century classified the Jew as being somehow feminine, a stigma that Freud sought to escape by carving out a scientific niche of his own.

Sander Gilman sits on the Honorary International Advisory Board of the Mens Sana Monographs.