Dr Åsa Eldén Uppsala University, Sweden Åsa Eldén holds a PhD from Uppsala University, Sweden, and has recently completed a research project on femicides in contemporary Turkey. The research was conducted in collaboration with Berna Ekal (EHESS, Paris), and discusses the understanding of femicides as defined in constant interaction between feminists, the media and the state. She has been a Senior Research Fellow at the Swedish Research Institute in Istanbul, at Bosphorus University in Istanbul and a researcher at [...]

Assist Prof Kathryn Engebretson Indiana University-Bloomington, School of Education Kathryn E. Engebretson, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor in Curriculum & Instruction at Indiana University, Bloomington. Having graduated from the University of  Minnesota in Education, Curriculum, and Instruction: Social Studies and Human Rights, her scholarly work to this point has focused on gender particularly as it relates to controversial or difficult issues in K-12 education. Current projects stemming from those interests include work on gender and teacher education [...]

Prof Peter L. McLaren College of Educational Studies, Chapman University & Co-Director, The Paulo Freire Democratic Project Peter McLaren is Distinguished Professor in Critical Studies, College of Educational Studies, Chapman University. He is also Chair Professor, Northeast Normal University in Changchun, China and a faculty member of the The Global Center of Advanced Studies, Michigan. He is also Professor Emeritus, University of California, Los Angeles, where he taught for 20 years. Professor McLaren left his native Canada [...]

Berna Ekal PhD candidate in Social Anthropology, Ecole des Hautes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), Paris Berna is a PhD candidate in the Social Anthropology and Ethnology Department of Ecole des Hautes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), Paris. Her thesis is on public women’s shelters in Turkey as an institutional response to violence against women. She worked with Åsa Eldén on a research project that problematises femicides in contemporary Turkey and explores interactions between feminists, media and the state. [...]

Sveva Magaraggia Lecturer, University of Roma Sveva Magaraggia has a PhD in Applied Sociology and Research Methods (University of Milan-Bicocca). She is a Lecturer at the University of Roma. She is co-chair of Atgender, the European Association for Gender Research, Education and Documentation. In 2012 she was awarded with the ‘Endeavour Research Fellowship’ (Australian Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations), and conducted research on gender relations and parenthood in Sydney. From 2008 to 2012 she was [...]

Ilaria Boiano Lawyer, Bar of Rome Ilaria Boiano is a lawyer of the Bar of Rome, with experience in protecting rights of women and the rights of migrants. She has a PhD in Criminal Law at the Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna of Pisa with a doctoral thesis on violence against women in criminal legal discourse. She has conducted research at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York and at European Court of Human Rights in [...]

Louise Lund Liebmann University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen Louise Lund Liebmann has a MA in religious studies. She is currently completing her PhD titled Et spørgsmål om ære. Intertekstuelle læsninger af fortællinger om æresrelateret vold. ["A question of honour: Intertextual readings of narratives on honour based violence"] University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen. She has research expertise in honour-based violence in Scandinavia, public and private representations of honour based violence, majority/minority relations in connection with reprensentations of honour based violence, women and [...]

Daniela Alaattinoğlu PhD Candidate, European University Institute - Florence, Italy Daniela Alaattinoğlu is a PhD researcher at the European University Institute's Department of Law in Florence, Italy. Her PhD research project on gendered violence and reparations is funded by the Academy of Finland. Daniela specialises and has several publications in the fields of gender and law and human rights, particularly focusing on gendered violence. Daniela taught criminal law at the Police College of Finland 2010-2013, and she [...]

Karen Ingala Smith Runs the campaign Counting Dead Women & Chief Executive of Nia Charity Karen Ingala Smith runs the campaign Counting Dead Women, recording and commemorating women killed through men's violence in the UK SINCE 2012.  She is Chief Executive of nia, a charity supporting women, girls and children who have experience sexual and domestic violence. She tweets  at @K_IngalaSmith and @CountDeadWomen and blogs at Kareningalasmith.com. She was awarded the 2014 prize for Positive Role Model for Gender by The [...]

Adrian HoweResearch Fellow, Socio-Legal Research Centre, Griffith University, Australia Adrian Howe is a Research Fellow, Socio-Legal Research Centre, Griffith University, Australia. She researches in the field of sexed violence. Her publications include Sex, Violence and Crime—Foucault and the ‘Man’ Question (Routledge-Cavendish 2008); (co-editor with Maureen Cain) Women, Crime and Social Harm: Towards a Criminology for the Global Era (Hart Publishing 2008); ‘Fatal Love’, Griffith Journal of Law and Human Dignity 2(1) 2014: 4-24 and ‘Mastering Emotions or Still Losing Control?—Seeking Public Engagement with Sexual Infidelity [...]

Prof Çigdem Balim Harding Associate Director of the Center for the Study of the Middle East (CSME) & Department of Near Estern Languages and Cultures, Indiana University Positions held At IU: Dr Balim Harding is the Associate Director of the Center for the Study of the Middle East (CSME), and a Senior Lecturer in the Dept of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures (2005 ). She is Affiliated Faculty for Inner Asian and Uralic National Resource Center; Russian and East [...]

Assoc Prof Emine Evered Department of History, Michigan State University Emine Evered is an Associate Professor of History at Michigan State University. Her research focuses on the Ottoman Empire (19th and 20th centuries) and republican-era Turkey. Topically she is interested in histories of education and schooling amid modernization; histories of disease, public health, and well-being; transformations from imperial-era ethnic and religious identities to modern nationalism and nation-states; and, histories of religiosity and secularism and their political and gendered dimensions. [...]

Dr Egle Dagilyte Senior Lecturer, Buckinghamshire New University Dr Egle Dagilyte is a Senior Lecturer in Law at Bucks New University. She holds a PhD in European Law (King’s College London), a Masters in International and Comparative Law (Uppsala University, Sweden) and a Bachelor in Law and Management (Mykolas Romeris University, Lithuania). Prior to Bucks, Egle taught law at King's College London and at the University of Greenwich. Egle’s academic interests lie in the area of human [...]

Ferya Tas King's College London Ferya started her MPhil/PhD in January, 2011 under the supervision of Professor Maleiha Malik. She obtained her LLB degree from the University of Istanbul in 2004 and her LLM degree from the University of Exeter in International Business Law in 2009. Ferya has been a member of Istanbul Bar Association and a practicing lawyer since 2005. Research Ferya’s research lies in the areas of sexuality and gender inequality in Law in the [...]

Dr Gul Berna Ozcan Reader in International Business and Entrepreneurship, Royal Holloway Dr Gül Berna Özcan is a Reader in International Business and Entrepreneurship. She is working for Royal Holloway, University of London (The school of School of Management Strategy, International Business and Entrepreneurship). She has written extensively on international business, small and medium-sized enterprises, entrepreneurship, political economy of decentralisation, and capital formations, utilising both quantitative and qualitative methods, including ethnographic and sociological techniques. Presently, Dr Özcan research deals [...]

Prof James Connelly Professor of politics, University of Hull Prof James Connelly is Professor of Political Theory in the School of Politics, philosophy and International Studies department, the University of Hull. He teaches political theory, contemporary political philosophy and environmental politics. He has published three editions of his co-authored book Politics and the Environment: From Theory to Practice and several articles on the politics and ethics of the environment; he is currently writing a monograph on environmental [...]

Prof Vildan Serin Prof of Economics, Fatih University & Visiting Professor, Keele Universit Vildan Serin is professor of Ecenomics at Fatih University and a Visiting Professor of Economics in Clause Moser Centre for Politics & International Studies at Keele University. After receiving her PhD in Economics from Ege University in 1979 she taught in Dokuz Eylul University and Marmara University as an Assistant Professor until 1984, as an Associate Professor until 1992 and as a Professor of Economics [...]

Philip A. Strand King's College London Philip holds a BA (major) with first class honours in Peace, War, and Defense and a BA (minor) in history from the University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill.  Philip holds an MBA from Mannheim Business School with modules completed at the Chinese European International Business School (CEIBS) and the Escuela de Alta Dirección y Administración (EADA).  His master’s thesis addressed the establishment of information controlling systems within fast-growing, medium-sized commercial [...]

Dr Annette Boaz Reader in Health Care Research, St. George's, University of London & Kingston University Annette Boaz is a social scientist working in the field of evaluating the impact of research on policy and practice. She co-edits the leading journal in the field: Evidence & Policy (http://www.policypress.co.uk/journals_eap.asp) and recently contributed to a special issue of the journal Research Evaluation on research impact assessment. With colleagues at Brunel University she has just completed an evidence synthesis for [...]

Dr Simon Griffiths Senior Lecturer, Goldsmiths College London Dr Simon Griffiths is Senior Lecturer in Politics at Goldsmiths, University of London. From 2010-11 he was also a Visiting Research Fellow at the Centre for Political Ideologies in Oxford. He divides his time between academia and public policy and was formerly Senior Policy Advisor at the British Academy (the UK’s national body for the humanities and social sciences), where he was involved in setting up their Policy Centre. He [...]

Dr Mina Toksoz Head of Country Risk, Standard Bank London Dr. Mina Toksoz has been working as Head of Country Risk at Standard Bank London since September 2001. She has been in investment banking for the past ten years including as Equity Strategist for Emerging Europe, Middle East and Africa at ABN Amro London. Prior to this Mina worked for The Economist Group's, Economist Intelligence Unit variously as Middle East editor, director of EIU's Country Risk Service, [...]

Prof Valorie K. Vojdik Professor of Law and Director of Clinical Law Programs, University of Tennessee Valorie K. Vojdik is a Professor of Law and Director of Clinical Law Programs at the University of Tennessee College of Law in Knoxville, Tennessee.   Professor Vojdik’s research and scholarship focuses on gender and feminist jurisprudence, constitutional law, comparative international law, and women in the military. She has twice served in the West Bank as an international to the European Union's Seyada [...]

Dr Laurent Mignon Associate Professor of Turkish, University of Oxford Dr Laurent Mignon is a Faculty Fellow and University Lecturer in Turkish. His research interests include modern Turkish literature and intellectual history, minority literature, socialist literature, biblical themes in Turkish literature and modern Jewish intellectual history. He is currently working on the emergence of Judeo-Turkish literature, covering the period between the publication of the first Turkish newspapers in Hebrew script in the 1870s and the 1950s. He also works on an alternative [...]

Dr Yalçın Armağan Lecturer, Istanbul Sehir University Yalcin Armagan was born in 1977, in Kayseri,Turkey. He graduated from the Faculty of Law of Ankara University in 2000 and received his PhD form the Department of Turkish Literature at Bilkent University in 2007. He gave some courses at Istanbul Bilgi University between 2007-2011 and is currently working as a lecturer at Istanbul Sehir University. From September 2013, he is visiting researcher at SOAS. Armagan edited books on Edip Cansever and Sait Faik Abasıyanık and [...]

Dr Prakash Shah Senior Lecturer, Queen Mary University of London Dr Prakash Shah specialises in religion and law, ethnic minorities and diasporas in law, immigration, refugee and nationality law, and comparative law with special reference to South Asians. He has published widely and lectured internationally in these fields (see cv). Dr Shah was Lecturer at SOAS, University of London from 1993, and Lecturer at the University of Kent at Canterbury from August 2000. He joined Queen Mary, [...]