Professor Jane L. Parpart
Professor Parpart is Visiting Professor at the Gender Institute 2012-2014. Profesor Parpart received her PhD from Boston University entitled Labor and Capital on the Copperbelt: African Labor Strategy and Corporate Labor Strategy in the Northern Rhodesian Copper Mines 1924-1964. Until recently, Jane Parpart was Professor of Development Studies, Gender Studies and History at University of Dalhousie, Halifax, Canada. Within development studies her main focus is on women, gender and development. Among her most recent publications are Rethinking Empowerment in a Global World: Gendered Perspectives (with Shirin Rai and Kathleen Staudt) and Gender, Conflict and Peacekeeping, edited with Dyan Mazurana and Angela Raven-Roberts. Jane is past president of the Canadian Association for African Studies, from which she recently received a lifetime achievement award. She is also Visiting Professor in Political Science at Stellenbosch University in South Africa, and Visiting Professor in Development Studies at Mbarara University in Uganda.
Research Interests include Africa: urban history, gender and development, Feminist Theory; feminism, postmodernism and development, Gender and Developmen, South East Asia, development practice, participation and empowerment.
Professor Shirin M. Rai
Shirin M. Rai will be a Visiting Professor at the Gender Institute from Lent Term 2012. She studied at the University of Delhi (India) and Cambridge University (UK) and joined the University of Warwick in 1989. She is Professor in the department of Politics and International Studies. She has directed a four year Leverhulme Trust funded programme on Gendered Ceremony and Ritual in Parliament (2007-2011). Her research interests lie in the area of feminist politics, gender and political institutions, globalisation and development studies. She has written extensively on issues of gender, governance and development in journals such as Signs, Hypatia, New Political Economy, International Feminist Journal of Politics and Political Studies. She is the author of Gender and the Political Economy of Development: from Nationalism to Globalisation (2002). Her latest works are Feminists Theorize the International Political Economy, Special Issue of Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society (co-ed. With Kate Bedford); The Gender Politics of Development (2008, Zed Books/Zubaan Publishers), (co-ed) Global Governance: Feminist Perspectives (2008, Palgrave) and (ed.) Ceremony and Ritual in Parliament (2010). She is the co-editor (with Wyn Grant) of the Manchester University Press book series Perspectives on Democratic Practice.
Professor Rai will give a public lecture at the Gender Institute on Monday 6 February entitled Social Reproduction and Depletion: Mapping Gendered Harm|.
Professor Susan Rudy
Susan Rudy will be a Senior Visiting Fellow at the Gender Institute for Lent Term 2012.
She is a Professor in the Department of English, University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada and has served as President of the Executive of several learned societies in North America, including the Canadian Literature Discussion Group of the Modern Languages Association (2008-09) and the Canadian Association of Chairs of English (2007-08). In 2009, she was Visiting Professor, School of American and Canadian Studies, University of Nottingham and, in 2002, Visiting Scholar at the Institute for Gender, Sexuality and Feminist Studies, McGill University, Montreal, Canada.
Professor Rudy is a literary critic and feminist theorist. Her research interests are in poetry, feminist theory and gender studies, and the history of women's writing in English. Recent publications include "Why Postmodernism Now? Toward a Poetry of Enactment" (a chapter in Re: Reading the Postmodern: Canadian Literature and Criticism after Modernism [Ottawa 2010]) and, with Ryan Fitzpatrick, "`These marked spaces lie beneath / the alphabet': Readers, Citizens, and Borders in Erín Moure's Recent Work" (Canadian Literature forthcoming 2012). Her books include Writing in our Time: Radical Poetries in English Canada (Wilfrid Laurier University Press 2005) and Poets Talk (University of Alberta Press 2005). During her fellowship at the Institute, she will focus on her current book project, Poetries of Enactment: The Work of Erín Moure and Caroline Bergvall, which draws on gender and spatial theory to think about the socially-engaged writing practices of contemporary innovative women writers.
Past Visitors to the Gender Institute
Professor Anne Kovalainen
Anne Kovalainen was Visiting Fellow at the Gender Institute in Michaelmas Terms 2011. She is Academy Professor nominated by the Academy of Finland, and Professor at the School of Economics, University of Turku, Finland. She has served as Vice-Chair and member of the Research Council for Culture and Society at the Academy of Finland, and member of the Standing Committee for Social Sciences at the European Science Foundation.
Academy Professor Kovalainen is an economic sociologist by education and her research interests range from gender, economy and social theories to methodological questions. Her recent books include Europeanization, Care and Gender (Palgrave 2011, forthcoming) and Qualitative Methods for Business Research (Sage 2008). For her fellowship, Academy Professor Kovalainen will mainly work on two topics: gender and economy, and epistemic communities and gender.
Dr Seppo Poutanen
Seppo Poutanen was Visiting Fellow at the Gender Institute in Michaelmas Term 2011. He is Academy of Finland Senior Researcher and Adjunct Professor of sociology at the University of Turku, Finland. He holds a Licentiate Degree in philosophy and Ph.D. in sociology, both from the University of Turku, and he mainly works in the areas of philosophy of science, social theory and social studies of science. Dr. Poutanen has published a textbook on moral philosophy in Finnish, and articles on social epistemology, critical medical sociology, social theory and social studies of science in Social Epistemology, Critical Public Health, Journal of Critical Realism and Sociological Research Online. For his fellowship, Dr Poutanen will focus mainly on the relationship between Whiteheadian process philosophy, methodology of social sciences and gender.
Professor Kovalainen and Dr Poutanen gave a research seminar Gendering Titanium Dioxide: From Female Inventor to Fluid Gender of Material Substance| at the Gender Institute on Wednesday 7 December 2011.
Dr Edeltraud Hanappi-Egger
Edeltraud Hanappi-Egger was a Visiting Fellow at the Gender Institute for Lent and Summer Term 2011. She holds a master's degree in Computer Science and a PhD in Technical Sciences from the University of Technology Vienna. She was research scholar at several international research institutions. Since 2002 she is full professor for "gender and diversity in organizations" at WU Vienna and published more than 200 articles on gender and technology, diversity management and organization studies. Her work was rewarded several times.
Edeltraud Hanappi-Egger was the head of the senate at WU from 2006-2009. She is a member of the university board of the Technical University of Graz and since 2008 she is a member of the "Young Academy" of the Austrian Academy of Sciences.
In February 2011, Edeltraud gave a research seminar at the Gender Institute entitled The Triple M of Organisations: Man, Management, and Myths|. Her book by the same title is available through Springer Publishers, please click here| for further details.
Dr Anne-Marie Fortier
Anne-Marie Fortier is a Reader in Social and Cultural Studies in the Sociology Department at Lancaster University and was a Visiting Fellow at the Gender Institute for Lent and Summer Term 2011. Engaging with critical race studies, feminist, queer and postcolonial theories, her work attends to how communities of belonging and entitlement are configured. Her work has centred on émigré cultures, queer diasporas, multiculturalist nationalism (and multicultural intimacies), and affective citizenship. Her current research interests are twofold: the citizenship naturalisation process in Britain, and the use of genetic genealogies to formulate and stabilise ideas of collective identities. She is the author of Migrant Belongings (2000), Multicultural Horizons (2008), co-editor of Uprootings/Regroundings (2003), and author of several journal articles.
In March 2011, Anne-Marie gave a research seminar| here at the Gender Institute.
Dr Nkoli Aniekwu
Nkoli Aniekwu was a Visiting Fellow for MIchaelmas Term 2010. She teaches Legal Method and Research at the Department of Public Law, University of Benin, Benin City, Nigeria. Her book Legal Methodology and Research in Nigeria was described by Professor Susanne Karstedt of the School of Law, University of Leeds as "a classic text in empirical and legal research methods."
Nkoli Aniekwu is a member of the Management Board of the Centre for Gender Studies and former Head, Department of Public Law, Faculty of Law, University of Benin.
In November 2010 Nkoli gave a research seminar at the Gender Institute entitled Domesticating Cairo And Beijing: Prospects And Opportunities For Legal Obligations To Reproductive Rights Protection In Nigeria|.
Sara Ahmed
Sara Ahmed is Professor of Race and Cultural Studies at Goldsmiths, University of London. Previously based in Women's Studies at Lancaster, her research is concerned with how bodies and worlds take shape; and how power is secured and challenged in everyday life worlds, as well as institutional cultures. Her publications include: Differences that Matter: Feminist Theory and Postmodernism (1998); Strange Encounters: Embodied Others in Postcoloniality (2000); The Cultural Politics of Emotion (2004), Queer Phenomenology: Orientations, Objects, Others (2006) and The Promise of Happiness (2010).
In February 2011, Sara gave a public lecture co-hosted by the Gender Institute and the Department of Media and Communications. For more information on this lecture, please click here|.
Lauren Berlant
Lauren Berlant is George M. Pullman Professor of English and Director of the Lesbian and Gay Studies Project at the University of Chicago. She is author of The Anatomy of National Fantasy: Hawthorne, Utopia, and Everyday Life (1991), The Queen of America Goes to Washington City: Essays on Sex and Citizenship(1997), and The Female Complaint: the Unfinished Business of Sentimentality in American Culture (2008). She has also edited a number of volumes, including Intimacy (2000) and Compassion: The Culture and Politics of an Emotion (2004). This talk comes from her forthcoming book, Cruel Optimism.
In February 2009 Lauren gave a public lecture at the Gender Institute entitled After the Good Life, the Impasse: Human Resources, Time Out, and the Precarious Present. Click here| to listen to the lecture.
Wendy Brown
Wendy Brown is Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley. Her fields of interest include the history of political theory, nineteenth and twentieth century Continental theory, critical theory, and cultural theory (including feminist theory, critical race theory, and postcolonial theory). Her current work focuses on the relationship of political sovereignty to global capital and other transnational forces, including those associated with religion, law, culture and moral discourse.
Professor Brown's books include Manhood and Politics: A Feminist Reading in Political Theory (Rowman and Littlefield, 1988), States of Injury: Power and Freedom in Late Modernity (Princeton, 1995), Politics Out of History (Princeton, 2001), Left Legalism/Left Critique, co-edited with Janet Halley (Duke, 2002), Edgework: Critical Essays in Knowledge and Politics (Princeton, 2005), and Regulating Aversion: Tolerance in the Age of Identity and Empire (Princeton, 2006).
In November 2008 Wendy gave a public lecture Gender Institute entitled Desiring Walls. Click here| to listen to the lecture.
Paul Higate
Paul Higate is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Politics at the University of Bristol. He has recently been made a Fellow of the ESRC/AHRC Global Uncertainties Programme and for the next 3 years will be carrying out a project under the title: Mercenary Masculinities Imagine Security: The Case of the Private Military Security Contractor'.
In March 2010 Paul gave a research seminar here at the Gender Institute entitled Vodka from the 'Butt Crack': Homoeroticism, Militarised Masculinities and the Private Militarised Security Company.
Ratna Kapur
Ratna Kapur is Director of the Centre for Feminist Legal Research in New Delhi, and lectures at the Indian Society for International Law. She is also on the Faculty of the Geneva School of Diplomacy and International Relations. She practiced law for a number of years in New Delhi, and now teaches and publishes extensively on international law, human rights, feminist legal theory and postcolonial theory. Her publications include: Feminist Terrains in Legal Domains: Interdisciplinary Essays on Women and Law (1996), Subversive Sites: Feminist Engagements with Law (1996), and Secularism's Last Sigh?: Hinduvata and the (Mis)Rule of Law (1999).
In March 2009 Ratna gave a public lecture at the Gender Institute entitled Hecklers to Power? The Waning Tools of LIberal Rights and Challenges to Feminism in South Asia. Click here| to listen to the lecture.
Ranjana Khanna
Ranjana Khanna| is Margaret Taylor Smith Director of Women's Studies and Professor in the Department of English, The Program in Literature, and Women's Studies at Duke University. She is the author of Dark Continents: Psychoanalysis and Colonialism (Duke University Press, 2003) and Algeria Cuts: Women and Representation 1830 to the Present (Stanford University Press, 2008). She has published widely in journals like diacritics, differences, positions, SAQ, Screen, Signs, and Art History. She is currently at work on projects about the concept of asylum and on technologies of unbelonging.
In December 2010, Ranjana gave a public lecture series at the Gender Instiutte entitled Asylum and Unbelonging. Abstract and audio recording for the lecture can be found here|.
Amina Mama
Amina Mama is currently at Mills College from 2008, California for three years as the first Barbara Lee Distinguished Chair in Women's Leadership. Prior to this appointment she spent almost a decade as the first Chair in Gender Studies at the African Gender Institute, University of Cape Town, South Africa, where she lectured, initiated the transdisciplinary graduate programme in Gender Studies, and carried out a series of regional intellectual capacity development and publication projects in the field of gender studies. Notable among these are continental networking and capacity development initiative 'Strengthening Gender Studies for Africa's Transformation', which supports the growing feminist scholarly network and hosts the Gender and Women's Studies in Africa website. She is a founding editor of the first continental academic gender studies journal 'Feminist Africa', established in 2002.
In the last decade she has carried out several collaborative research projects in the area of gender and politics, sexuality and higher education. These include Mapping African Sexualities (in collaboration with Takyiwaa Manuh, University of Ghana and supported by Ford Foundation) and Gender and Institutional Culture in African Universities (in collaboration with Teresa Barnes, University of the Western Cape, supported by the Association of African Universities). She is currently developing new work on the gender politics of militarism, conflict and peace-building and transnational feminism.
In September 2009 Amina gave a public lecture at the LSE co-presented by the Gender Institute, STICERD and the Department of International Relations entitled Militarism and Underdevelopment. Click here| to listen to the lecture.
Minoo Moallem
Minoo Moallem is Professor and Chair of Gender & Women's Studies at UC Berkeley. She received her Ph.D. in Sociology from University of Montreal and completed her postdoctoral studies at University of California Berkeley. She is the author of Between Warrior Brother and Veiled Sister: Islamic Fundamentalism and the Cultural Politics of Patriarchy in Iran (UC Press). She is also the co-editor (with Caren Kaplan and Norma Alarcon) of Between Woman and Nation. Nationalisms, Transnational Feminisms and The State (Duke University Press, 1999), and the guest editor of a special issue of Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East on "Iranian Immigrants, Exiles and Refugees." She has recently ventured in digital media. Her on line project "Nation-on-the Move"(design by Eric Loyer) was recently published in Vectors. Journal of Culture and Technology in a Dynamic Vernacular (Special issue on Difference, Fall 2007). Professor Moallem's areas of research include women in modern and contemporary Iran, transnational approaches to Muslims, fundamentalisms, and feminism. Her current work on immigrants, exiles and refugees from Iran focuses on the question of belonging and citizenship for Muslim women in the contemporary west as well as in Iran. Much of this work is interested in transnational conceptions of citizenship and global neoliberal forms of governmentality. She is currently working on a book manuscript on the commodification of the nation through consumptive production and circulation of such commodity as the Persian carpet and a project on Iran-Iraq war movies and masculinity.
Minoo gave a public lecture at the LSE co-hosted by the Gender Institute and the SOAS Centre for Gender Studies entitled Gender, Race, and Religion in the Spectacle of Citizenship.
Jennifer Nedelsky
Jennifer Nedelsky is Professor of Law at the University of Toronto. Her teaching and scholarship have been concentrated on Feminist Theory, Theories of Judgment, American Constitutional History and Interpretation, and Comparative Constitutionalism. In addition to her book, Private Property and the Limits of American Constitutionalism (1990), she has published numerous articles in these areas. She is currently is at work on two books Law, Autonomy and the Relational Self: A Feminist Revisioning of the Foundations of Law and Human Rights and Judgment: A Relational Approach to be published by Oxford University Press.
In November 2008 Jennifer gave a research seminar at the Gender Institute entitled Rights and the Fully Human Self.
Robyn Wiegman
Robyn Wiegman is Professor of Women's Studies and Literature and former Director of the Women's Studies Program at Duke from 2001-2007. Her publications include American Anatomies: Theorizing Race and Gender (1995), Who Can Speak: Identity and Critical Authority (1995), Feminism Beside Itself (1995), AIDS and the National Body (1997), The Futures of American Studies (2002), and Women's Studies on Its Own (2002). Professor Wiegman's research interests include feminist theory, queer theory, American Studies, critical race theory, and film and media studies. She is currently working on two manuscripts: Being in Time With Feminism focuses on the institutionalization of feminism in the U.S. academy; Object Lessons: The U.S. Knowledge Politics of Identity pays attention to relations of identification and affect in the constitution of identity as an academic object of study.
In November 2009 Robyn gave a public lecture at the Gender Institute entitled Learning How to Cite Judith Butler. Click here to listen| to the seminar.