Lars Olav Aaberg
Queer Diversity and Inclusion Policy and Practice: an Ethnographic Study of Queer Politics in India’s Information City
- Email: lo_aaberg@soas.ac.uk
Centre for Gender Studies
PhD Students
Haya Al -Noaimi
‘The Protectors of Our Nation’: Discourses of Protection and the Construction of Masculinities in the Qatari and Emirati Militaries
- Email: 633553@soas.ac.uk
Hanna Al Taher
Gendered Citizenship in Jordan: Imagining, Claiming, Resisting Belonging
- Email: 657897@soas.ac.uk
Mary Elizabeth Wentworth Austin
Discourses of the Domestic: journalists, activists and academics creating the climate for an Indonesian Domestic Workers' Bill.
- Email: 526396@soas.ac.uk
Sreya Banerjea
'Ladki Paraya Dhan Hoti Hai' (Girls are Others' Property')
- Email: 633470@soas.ac.uk
Sara Bertotti
Between Law and Peace: Law’s Violence and the Displacing of Dissent in Peace Agreements (working title)
- Email: s_bertotti@soas.ac.uk
Jana Cattien
The dialectics of universality and particularity in contemporary 'western' liberalism; or: liberalism's 'cultural' turn? (working title)
Alice Finden
A queer historical analysis of Anglo/Egyptian counter-terrorism and emergency law (Working title)
- Email: 616573@soas.ac.uk
Alaya Forte
New forms of political inclusion or mere tokenism? Reading political representation from a gender and minority perspective in British and French government (working title)
- Email: af23@soas.ac.uk
Biye Gao
Gender, Class and Reproduction in Post-Socialist Rural China (working title)
- Email: 602520@soas.ac.uk
Alison Jin
Sustainable Representation of Women in Parliament via Gender Quotas in Post-conflict Rwanda
- Email: 657284@soas.ac.uk
Emily Jones
Feminist Cyborgs and Gods: International Law, Humanism and the limits of the Global Order
- Email: ej9@soas.ac.uk
Haje Keli
An analysis of the gender-based violence in Iraqi Kurdistan – state, society and family violence [working title]
- Email: 585347@soas.ac.uk
Isabel Käser
Militant Femininity: The PKK-led Women's Movement in the Kurdish Middle East – A Transnational Analysis
- Email: ik7@soas.ac.uk
Shreeta Lakhani
Gendering Notions of Belonging: Complicating the conceptualisation of the belonging of Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) bodies in London (working title)
- Email: 642673@soas.ac.uk
Laurie Lijnders
Motherhood Across Borders (working title)
- Email: 618850@soas.ac.uk
Chiu Wan Liu
Changing Gender-age System in the Digital-era: a Case Study in 'Taobao Village' of China [working title]
- Email: 632582@soas.ac.uk
Michelle Lokot
Unraveling humanitarian narratives: Syrian gender norms in contestation
Sidonia Lucia Kula
Working title: Borders, Law & Violence: Irregular Migrants In Angola
- Email: lk15@soas.ac.uk
Kavita Maya
The Politics of British Goddess Spirituality: a feminist and critical race analysis (Working Title)
- Email: km72@soas.ac.uk
Akanksha Mehta
Negotiating Space on the 'Right': The everyday politics of Hindu Nationalist and Zionist settler women in India and Israel-Palestine
- Email: akanksha_mehta@soas.ac.uk
S. Paniz Musawi Natanzi
Visual Art Production in War: A Feminist Geopolitical Analysis of Masculinities in Art-Producing Spaces in West Kabul, Afghanistan, from 2014-2018
- Email: sm149@soas.ac.uk
Eric Rindal
Masculinity in Refugee Diaspora: (Re)presentations of Syrian refugee men who have experienced conflict-related sexual violence
- Email: 657733@soas.ac.uk
Barbara Schenkel
Women's Citizenship in Jordan
- Email: 643101@soas.ac.uk
Thomas Sparrow
Masculinity and Secularism in Historical and Contemporary Frame
- Email: 177056@soas.ac.uk
Jacquelyn P. Strey
Queer Moments, Queer Imaginings: The everyday activism of queer women in India
- Email: 539840@soas.ac.uk
Magdalena Suerbaum
Mosaics of masculinity - Gendering the experience of male Syrian refugees in Egypt
- Email: ms152@soas.ac.uk
Nina Sun
A Study of Millions of Mixed-Orientation Marriages in Yangtze River Delta in China
- Email: 655792@soas.ac.uk
Anisha Thomas
The Erasure of 'Normal' Violence in the Production of Rape as a Crisis
- Email: 619106@soas.ac.uk
Paola Zichi
Thesis (Working) Title: On Feminist Approaches to Self-Determination in Mandatory Palestine
- Email: pz4@soas.ac.uk
Kim Jezabel Zinngrebe
Defying 'the plan': intimate politics among Palestinian women in Israel
- Email: KJ_Zinngrebe@soas.ac.uk
Recently Completed PhDs:
2018- Translating Rights into Agency: A Feminist Analysis of Chinese Women's Reproductive Agency
- Defying the 'plan': Intimate politics among Palestinian women in Israel
- Moments of Becoming: Genealogies of Black [Diaspora] Feminism in Britain
- Affecting Change: Young Women's Groups, The Nation-State and the Politics of Gender in Pre- and Post-Revolutionary Cairo
- Right-Wing Sisterhood: Everyday Politics of Hindu Nationalist Women in India and Zionist Settler Women in Israel-Palestine
- Agency and Sisterhood: A Feminist Analysis of Ethiopian Sex Workers' Experiences of, and Resistance to, Violence
- A Queer Way Out: Israeli Emigration and Unheroic Resistance to Zionism
- Beyond Resistance: Iranian Women's Narratives of the Body and Sexuality
- Gender, Global Economic Development and the Intimate Lives: Exploring Reproductive Dilemmas in Metro Manila and Cavite, Philippines
- Mirror on the wall, am I desirable at all?' Sex, pleasures and the market in postcolonial Italy
- The Labour Market Choices of Married Woman in Low-Income Beirut: Structures, Stratergies and Subjectivities
- The Pedagogy of Difference: Islam, Neo-Liberalism and the Reproduction of Gender in Primary Education in AKP Turkey
- Iranian Feminisms: Transnational connectivities between homes and diasporas
- Is there still a Gender Divide? A Study of the Indigenous Women in Hong Kong since the Legitimization of Female Land Inheritance during the Post-Colonial Era
- Occupational Hazard or Patriarchal Entitlement? : Feminist Analysis of the Dynamics of Violence in Ethiopian Sex Work
- Active (Dis)engagement: The Gendered Production of Political Apathy in Israel
- Cross-Straight marriage migrants between Taiwan and China: gendering personal and collective strategies
- Gender and Guardianship in Jordan: Femininity, Compliance, and Resistance
- Gender and Islam in Indonesian Cinema
- Guerrilla Girls: Rebellious Women of the Japanese 1960s-1970s 'Pinky Violence' Films
- In Whose Interests? The Politics of Gender Equality in Jordan
- Negotiating rape: Understanding the collective, gender and identity in Somaliland
- Exile from Exile: The Representation of Cultural Memory in Literary Texts by Exiled Iranian Jewish Women