Jenny Westerstrand Uppsala University, Sweden Jenny Westerstrand is a researcher in the Department of Law and Centre for Gender Studies, Uppsala University, Sweden. She wrote her thesis in Public International Law, dealing with prostitution and human trafficking in international law, and the conflicting feminist discourses that surrounds the question on how to conceptualize those [...]
Latefa Guemar Associate at LCSS & Gender Institute Visiting Fellow, LSE Latefa is an Associate at LCSS and a visiting fellow at the Gender Institute, LSE. She was forced to leave Algeria following personal attacks on her family as a result of her husband’s work as a journalist. Having received refugee status in the [...]
Dr Fahri Karakas Fellow at LCSS & Researcher and Lecturer, University of East Anglia I am Lecturer in Business and Leadership at Norwich Business School. I joined UEA in July 2012 having previously worked at Open University Business School as Research Fellow in International Management Practice, Education, and Learning (IMPEL). I hold three [...]
Dr Tom McKenzie Fellow at LCSS & Lecturer at University of Dundee Tom has a background in economics and mathematics and holds degrees from the Universities of Bonn and Cologne. He is a research fellow at Cass Business School, City University London and an approved researcher of the Office for National Statistics. Tom [...]
Prof Nadje Al-Ali Centre for Gender Studies, SOAS, University of London Nadje Al-Ali is Professor of Gender Studies at the Centre for Gender Studies, SOAS, University of London. Her main research interests revolve around gender theory; feminist activism; women and gender in the Middle East; transnational migration and diaspora moblization; war, conflict and [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
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’ [...]
