Steering group

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).

Dr Wannes Dupont is an Associate Director of GENDER.ED. 

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.

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.

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 is a Senior 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.’

She is one of the Co-Directors of GENDER.ED, and 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 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.

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.

Ewan has helped build the award-winning map of Scottish witch trials – the Scottish Accused Witches project – using WikiData.

She is interested in film’s engagement with religion and spirituality, representations and constructions of gender in visual culture, the Iranian performing arts and religion, contemporary expressions of Islam in art and material culture, and Persian literature.

Rae holds a Ph.D. in Critical Human Geography from York University and his work explores the contestations of living, and forms of resistance and belonging, amongst multiply-marginalized LGBTQ+ people.

Her background is in Art History and Visual Cultural Studies, and their present research interests concern (post-)phenomenology, horror, and the non-human turn in new media.

Laura’s research explores the margins of peace processes and conflict-affected societies and their intersections with the politics of inclusion. She is particularly interested in local peace processes, ethnopolitics, and women, peace and security.