Radboud University Nijmegen Katrine Smiet is Assistant Professor in Gender and Diversity Studies at the Radboud Faculty of Philosophy, Theology and Religious Studies. She is a philosopher with an interdisciplinary background. Her areas of specialization are feminist philosophy and critical philosophy of race. In her current research project, she critically examines [...]
Utrecht University Dr. Eva Midden is Assistant Professor in Gender Studies, at the Media and Culture Studies Department, at Utrecht University. She has a master’s degree in Political Science from the University of Leiden (Netherlands) and a PhD in Philosophy (University of Central Lancashire, United Kingdom). Her thesis was entitled: 'Feminism in [...]
University of Groningen. The project concerns the role elite women played in the development of social movements and civil society at the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth century. This approach offers a new perspective within the study of political culture, family culture, elite studies and women’s history. Its main [...]
Yale University, Connecticut Inderpal Grewal is Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. Most recently she has taught at University of California, Irvine, where she was director of Women’s Studies and of the PhD Program in Culture and Theory. Her research interests include transnational feminist theory; gender and globalization, human [...]
University of California, Santa Cruz Donna Haraway, Ph.D., (b. 1944 in Denver) taught as a Professor of Feminism and Technoscience at the European Graduate School EGS. Donna Haraway is an internationally recognized feminist theorist and philosopher of science and technology. Her seminal work, Simians, Cyborgs, and Women: The Reinvention of [...]
Linköping University, Sweden Nina Lykke is professor of Gender Studies with special reference to Gender and Culture at Linköping University, Sweden. She is director of an international Centre of Gender Excellence, GEXcel, as well as scientific leader of a Nordic and a Swedish-International Research School in Interdisciplinary Gender Studies. She [...]
Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton Joan Scott's work has challenged the foundations of conventional historical practice, including the nature of historical evidence and historical experience. Drawing on a range of philosophical thought, as well as on a rethinking of her own training as a labor historian, she has contributed to [...]
City University of New York, New York Nancy K. Miller is professor of English, French and Comparative Literature at the Graduate Center, CUNY. She worked on a project about the experience of girls and young women in the American 1950s, about private life and middlebrow culture; also a project on [...]
University of York, York Writes both in English and in French. Fictions: Le Spectre du gris (in English: Shades of Grey, Virago, 1981); L'Entremise, and short stories in various collections. Critical Essays: Baudelaire (Macmillan's, 1983); Colette (Harvester Press, 1987) ; Un Homme nommé Zapolski, translated into English as The Streetcleaner: [...]
London School of Economics, London Anne Phillips joined the LSE in 1999 as Professor of Gender Theory, and was Director of the Gender Institute until September 2004. She subsequently moved to a joint appointment between the Gender Institute and Government Department. She is a leading figure in feminist political theory, [...]
University of California, Santa Cruz Karen Barad is Professor of Feminist Studies, Philosophy, and History of Consciousness at the University of California at Santa Cruz. Her Ph.D. is in theoretical particle physics. She held a tenured appointment in a physics department before moving into more interdisciplinary spaces. She is the [...]
London School of Economics, London Professor Jane Lewis has research interests mainly in the field of gender and family policies, both historically and comparatively. She also maintains an interest in the third sector. Over the past decade she has contributed a series of publication on lone parents, marriage and cohabitation, [...]
