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Rohit K Dasgupta

r.dasgupta2@lse.ac.uk

Associate Professor of Gender & Sexuality

Key expertise: Queer Politics, digital culture, South Asia, media & cultural production, cultural labour

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Clare Hemmings

C.Hemmings@lse.ac.uk

Professor of Feminist Theory & Doctoral Programme Director

Key expertise: Interdisciplinarity; feminist epistemology and methodology

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Aiko Holvikivi

A.I.Holvikivi@lse.ac.uk

Assistant Professor in Gender, Peace and Security

Key expertise: Women, Peace and Security; gender training; peacekeeping; gender expertise

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Asiya Islam

a.islam1@lse.ac.uk

Assistant Professor in Gender, Development and Globalisation

Key expertise: Gender, class, youth, work, Global South, development and globalisation

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Emrah Karakus
E.karakus@lse.ac.uk

LSE Fellow in Gender and Human Rights

Key expertise: Gender, Political Violence, Affective Politics, Kurds, Middle East

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Zeynep Kilicoglu
Z.Kilicoglu@lse.ac.uk

LSE Fellow in Gender and International Politics

Key expertise: Critical Security Studies, Migration and Refugee Studies, Feminist International Relations Theory

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Sumi Madhok
S.Madhok@lse.ac.uk

Head of Department & Professor of Political Theory and Gender Studies

Key expertise: Human Rights, Coloniality, Transnational Justice Movements

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Gloria Novovic
g.novovic@lse.ac.uk

LSE Fellow in Gender, Development and Globalisation

Key expertise: gender and development, global governance, feminist policy, SDGs

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Sharmila Parmanand
S.Parmanand1@lse.ac.uk

Assistant Professor in Gender, Development and Globalisation

Key expertise: sex work; trafficking; migration; gender and development

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Ania Plomien
A.Plomien@lse.ac.uk

Associate Professor of Gender and Social Science & Deputy Head of Department (Research)

Key expertise: gender; feminist political economy; social reproduction; care; work

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Samar 'SM' Rodriguez
S.Rodriguez9@lse.ac.uk

Assistant Professor of Gender, Rights and Human Rights

Key expertise: Anticarceral Feminism, Social Justice, Africana Studies, Sexual Politics

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Leticia Sabsay
L.Sabsay@lse.ac.uk

Associate Professor of Gender and Contemporary Culture 

Key expertise: queer theory; psychoanalysis; bodies and sexuality; visual culture & media

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Hakan Sandal-Wilson

h.h.sandal-wilson@lse.ac.uk

Assistant Professor of Gender, Peace and Security

Key expertise: Gender and Sexuality; Peace, War, and Conflict; Ethnicity and Religion; Middle East

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Wendy Sigle
W.Sigle@lse.ac.uk

Professor of Gender and Family Studies 

Key expertise: Feminist quantitative research; stratification; family and social policy

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Sadie Wearing 
S.Wearing@lse.ac.uk

Associate Professor of Gender Theory, Culture and Film & Deputy Head of Department (Teaching)

Key expertise: gender theory, representation, feminist film theory, aging

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Henrietta Burr

Department Manager

Henrietta is responsible for the department’s strategy and operations, alongside the Professional Services team and the management of resources. 

Email: h.s.burr@lse.ac.uk 

Department Email: gender@lse.ac.uk

Rob Kirkland

Department Operations and Assessment Manager

Rob manages and administers assessment for all Gender Studies courses. He also oversees the department’s operational activities.

Email: R.P.Kirkland@lse.ac.uk

Catherine Perry

Taught Programmes & Student Affairs Manager

Catherine manages the taught programmes at the Department of Gender Studies. She is responsible for the academic administration of all our Masters programmes.

Email: c.perry2@lse.ac.uk

Annie Robinson

Research Manager

Annie manages the PhD Programme and supports the department's research activities, including grants and the Department's Research Committee. 

Email: a.k.robinson@lse.ac.uk

Nele Leitolf

Communications and Events Officer 

Nele supports the department’s external outreach, engagement activities & research promotion. This is includes management of the department's social media, website, newsletter, alumni network, and events.

Email: n.f.leitolf@lse.ac.uk

Mary Evans
Emeritus Leverhulme Professor 

M.S.Evans@lse.ac.uk

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Marsha Henry
Senior Visiting Fellow

m.g.henry@lse.ac.uk

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Alanah Mortlock 
Visiting Fellow 

 A.Mortlock@lse.ac.uk

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Diane Perrons
Professor Emerita in Feminist Political Economy

D.Perrons@lse.ac.uk

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Alexandra Pugh
Affiliated LSE100 Fellow

A.Pugh@lse.ac.uk

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Shirin Rai
Visiting Professor

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Vron Ware
Visiting Professor

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Irina Zherebkina
Researcher at Risk Fellow

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Melissa Chacon
Visiting Fellow

j.m.chacon@lse.ac.uk

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Aynura Akbaš

a.akbas@lse.ac.uk

Thesis title: Exclusion and Inclusion in the Military: Uncovering Oral Narratives of Women Soldiers and Veterans of 1992-1995 Bosnian War

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Nour Almazidi

n.almazidi@lse.ac.uk 

Thesis title: Histories of Struggle and Resistance: Stateless Subaltern Politics in Kuwait

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Alia Amirali

A.Ali28@lse.ac.uk 

Thesis title: Domestic Workers as Political Subjects: Desire, Political Subjectivation and Everyday Lives of Islamabad's Domestic Workers

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Malena (Maria Magdalena) Bastida Antich 

m.bastida-antich@lse.ac.uk

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Zuzana Dančíková 

z.dancikova@lse.ac.uk

Thesis title: Understanding daddy quotas as a part of the gender structure: The case of the Slovak leave policy for fathers

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Lizzie Hobbs

e.l.hobbs@lse.ac.uk  

Thesis title: Gatekeeping & Fencebuilding: Discourse on Masculinities within Anti-Migrant Politcs in the UK

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Ting-Sian Liu

T.Liu36@lse.ac.uk

Thesis title: The Voices of Indigenous Queer Subjects in Taiwan: A Focus on Decolonial and Intersectional Queer Activism

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Luma (Lucas) Mantilla Garino

 L.Mantilla1@lse.ac.uk

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Magda Muter

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Oksana Potapova

 O.Y.Potapova@lse.ac.uk

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Florence Waller-Carr

f.s.waller-carr@lse.ac.uk

Thesis title: A Project of Gender, Peace and Security? The role of civil society organisations in the ecosystem of WPS

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Senel Wanniarachchi 

S.M.Wanniarachchi@lse.ac.uk  

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Claire Wilmot

C.L.Wilmot@lse.ac.uk

Thesis title: "All I Have to Say”: Testimony, power and law in wake of gendered violence 

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