Aleksandra Wagner, Core Faculty in The New School for General Studies Bachelor Program, guest edited a special section on the topic of shame for the latest issue of Cabinet Magazine, available now. Cabinet Magazine  is a quarterly magazine of arts & culture. The editors approached Professor Wagner after learning of a course she was teaching on the subject at The New School (Social Dimensions of Shame).

Professor Wagner is a PhD candidate in Sociology at CUNY Graduate Center and a licensed psychoanalyst and member of the National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis. Her interests and her dissertation focus on the social history of psychoanalysis in the United States. Among her other New School courses are Sociology of Forgiveness and Psychoanalysis: An Urban Experience. She is a member of the editorial boards of the Psychoanalytic Review and Discourse of Sociological Practice. Her own contribution to the issue, an essay titled, "The Woman Who Knew Too Much," is an exploration of shame within the context of a sorrowful Slavic folk tale and its heroine.