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Jana Al Ramahi
Katya Amott
Kate Davison
Role
Dr Kate Davison is a Lecturer in the History of Sexuality at the School of History, Classics and Archaeology.Her research interests span the nineteenth to twenty-first centuries in global, world and transnational perspective, as well as postcolonial, archive, museum, and memory studies. She is currently interested on the psychiatric treatment of queer desire and gender during the Cold War, and some of her research will be published in her forthcoming book, Aversion Therapy: Sex, Psychiatry and the Cold War (Cambridge).
Wannes Dupont
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Dr Wannes Dupont is a Lecturer in the History of Sexuality at the School of History, Classics and Archaeology and an Associate Director of GENDER.ED.Wannes is on research leave for Semester 1 of 2025/26. Zubin Mistry will be interim Associate Director during this period.
He previously taught at Yale-NUS College (Singapore), Utrecht University (Netherlands), and the University of Antwerp (Belgium). His work, publications, and teaching primarily concern the European and global history of sexuality, and the intersections of biopolitics and religion.
Patricia Erskine
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Dr. Patricia Erskine is Head of Stakeholder Relations & Policy Officer for the College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences.
Ben Fletcher-Watson
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Dr Ben Fletcher-Watson is the Administrative Manager at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities.At IASH, he supports the work of visiting scholars and helps to present regular events across the College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences and beyond.
Emma Gieben-Gamal
Role
Dr Emma Gieben-Gamal is a Lecturer in Design Cultures within the School of Design and Joint Director of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion for ECA.Her work is driven by an interest in the relationship between design and identity and is increasingly motivated by a commitment to social justice.
Radhika Govinda
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Dr Radhika Govinda is the Director of GENDER.ED.She is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology and Principal Investigator of the project Teaching Feminisms, Transforming Lives. Her work demonstrates the importance of understanding gender politics at the intersections of caste, class, race/ethnicity and religion in women’s and social movements, in development policies and practice, in everyday social relations, and in the global dynamics of knowledge production.
Hemangini Gupta
Hemangini is a Lecturer in Gender and Global Politics at the School of Social and Political Science. She has a PhD in Women’s Gender and Sexuality Studies. She researches and has teaching interests in transnational feminisms, postcolonial and decolonial theory, and gender and sexuality in the South.
Hemangini is also an ‘Annual Research Showcase’ and ’16 Days Blogathon’ Event Lead, and the Co-Convener of ‘Understanding Gender in the Contemporary World.’
Rebecca Hewer
Role
Dr Rebecca Hewer leads GENDER.ED’s Gender and Sexuality Studies Reading Group (GSS-RG).She is a Chancellor’s Fellow in Sociology, School of Social and Political Sciences. Her research explores the socio-legal regulation of (primarily) women’s bodies, the politics of knowledge production, and feminist utopian thinking. She is particularly interested in reproductive and sexual governance and justice, and prefigurative policy reform.
Rachel Hosker
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Rachel Hosker is the University Archivist and Research Collections Manager.Rachel originally trained as an archivist, and now manages archivists, librarians, and curators responsible for the University’s cultural heritage collections and welcomes IASH fellows to the Centre for Research Collections at the University. Rachel is Chair of the UK UNESCO Memory of the World Programme.
Louise Jackson
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Professor Louise Jackson holds a Personal Chair of Modern Social History in the School of History, Classics, and Archeology.Her research is concerned with histories of women and gender in modern Britain, as well as with histories of policing and surveillance, crime, deviancy, childhood, youth and sexuality.
Laura Jeffery
Role
Professor Laura Jeffery is the Dean of Research for the College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences. She is also Professor of Anthropology of Migration at the School of Social and Political Science.As Dean of Research, she is keen to promote research and engagement on issues of gender and sexuality across all of the arts, humanities and social sciences disciplines covered in the College.
Meryl Kenny
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Dr Meryl Kenny is a Senior Lecturer in Gender and Politics, Convenor of the Gender Politics Research Group, and Co-Director of the Feminism and Institutionalism International Network.Meryl’s research interests bridge the intersection of gender politics, party politics, territorial politics, and institutional approaches to the study of politics.
rashné limki
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Dr rashné limki is a Lecturer in Work and Organisation Studies at the Business School.Her academic thinking and writing focuses mainly on the ethics and politics of work in a global context. In particular, she is interested in the role of difference (primarily, race and gender) in the emergence and distribution of new forms of work. More recently, she has been thinking about the eugenicist underpinnings of discourses on technology.
Ewan McAndrew
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Ewan McAndrew is the Wikimedian in Residence at the University of Edinburgh.Ewan has helped build the award-winning map of Scottish witch trials – the Scottish Accused Witches project – using WikiData.
Lesley McAra
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Professor Lesley McAra is the Director of the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, and is a Professor of Penology at Edinburgh Law School.Lesley’s research interests lie in the general areas of the sociology of punishment and the sociology of law and deviance. Particular interests include: youth crime and juvenile justice; gender justice and community well-being; the politics of crime control; and comparative criminal justice. She is Co-Director (with Susan McVie) of theEdinburgh Study of Youth Transitions and Crime, and directs the Edinburgh Futures Institute.
