GENDER.ED Directory
Welcome to the GENDER.ED Directory. It brings together gender and sexualities studies researchers from across the University of Edinburgh, and gender and sexualities studies-related courses at undergraduate ordinary, honours, and postgraduate levels. With over 330 entries, the GENDER.ED Directory provides a comprehensive overview of the research and teaching being conducted at the University of Edinburgh. The Directory is designed to be used by prospective and current students and researchers, potential collaborators, and the wider community interested in gender and sexualities studies.
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Researchers found in the Directory range from our PhD and early career researchers to Professors. Within these profiles, you will find details of research interests, ongoing research projects, noteworthy gender and sexualities-related publications, and teaching activity. We hope these entries will enable researchers to connect with one another (across and beyond the institution), encouraging multidisciplinary collaboration.
Course entries on the Directory provide insight into the content taught in each course, the course’s credit level, and the year taken. Course entries provide a valuable resource to students at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels, assisting in navigating gender and sexualities studies pathways through their University programmes.
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Mihaela Mihai |
Mihaela Mihai (she/her) is a Professor of Political Theory in the School of Social and Political Science at Edinburgh. Her research interests cut across political theory, philosophy, aesthetics and social theory. Between 2015-2020, she led a 5-year European Research Council Starting Grant project entitled: Illuminating the ‘Grey Zone’: Addressing Complex Complicity in Human Rights Violations. She is currently currently the PI of an AHRC Interdisciplinary Network for the Study of Environmental Emotions. |
Modern Art in Shanghai, 1840-1930 |
The course will focus on four major themes: orthodox school and new media; urbanism and marketable art; foreign stimuli, and defining modernity. A variety of materials examined will include: traditional ink painting of various popular subjects, metal and stone studies, archaic calligraphy and seal carving, early photography, rubbing, lithography, pictorials on printed matters, newspaper illustration, colonial architecture, posters for calendar, theatre and the early cinema. |
Modern Love: Victorian Poetry and Prose (Postgraduate) |
Modern ideas of 'Victorian values' depend upon clichés and distortions of Victorian ideas of love: reverence for the nuclear family combined with prudishness and prurience; marriage plots, covered table-legs and scandal sheets publishing the dirty secrets of the divorce courts. This course offers students the opportunity to discover the complex and diverse forms of Victorian interpersonal relationship, through close examination of a range of poetry, prose and drama. |
Muslim Societies in Southeast Asia |
Southeast Asia is home to almost a quarter of the global Muslim population. This course will explore the diverse manifestations of Islam among Southeast Asian people who speak a myriad of languages and who belong to distinct national, ethnic, and racial groups. We will learn how Islam plays a crucial role in the development of Southeast Asian history, religion, politics, arts, and societies. We will critically analyse the impacts of Islamic beliefs and values on social and cultural practices, and the formation of nations, communities, and identities. |
Nacim Pak-Shiraz |
Professor Nacim Pak-Shiraz is Personal Chair of Cinema and Iran, and Head of Department of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Edinburgh. Nacim has also curated a number of film festivals in Edinburgh, and has been a jury member and speaker at several international film festivals in the Czech Republic, Turkey and Iran. Her research focuses on cinema and visual culture in the Middle East, particularly Iran. |
Natasha Fricker |
Natasha (she/her) is a PhD candidate in Politics at the University of Edinburgh (matriculated 2021). |
Nations and Nationalism (PG) |
This postgraduate seminar is taught in conjunction with the Sociology Honours course of the same name, with which it shares a parallel structure of weekly topics and readings. The course aims to examine major modes of explaining nationalism, and to relate nationalism to other key themes and topics. The seminar topics explore nationalism in relation to modernity and ethnicity, to its ethnic, civic and civil characters, to language and religion, class and gender, and ethnic conflict and globalisation. Credit Level: 11 Year taken: Postgraduate SCQF credits: 20 |
Nations and Nationalism (UG) |
The course aims to examine major modes of explaining nationalism, and to relate nationalism to other key themes in sociology. It begins by examining key concepts, theories and typologies of nationalism, with particular attention focused on the distinction among ethnic, civic and civil nationalisms. Thereafter the course seeks to explore the relationship between nationalism and other social and political processes, such as language, religion, class, gender, conflict regulation and globalization. |
Neerja Pathak |
Neerja Pathak is a PhD Candidate at the School of Social and Political Science. Her doctoral research is a study of the first name changing practices of women post marriage in West India. In studying this practice, she is engaging in the gender power relations entrenched in this practice as well as unravelling the intertwining of religion, rituals, caste, bureaucracy, identity and patriarchy. She is especially interested in the affective landscape of this practice for the people involved. |
Niamh Moore |
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