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
Centre for Gender Studies
PhD Students
Sabiha Allouche
(working title) Un-doing Lebanon’s myth of ‘sexual freedom’: an empirical examination of the intimate life of non-married men and women in contemporary urban Lebanon
- Email: 535558@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
Law and Peace Agreements: Theory and Practice (working title)
- Email: 584572@soas.ac.uk
Jana Cattien
Contemporary Cologne: Unsettling Feminisms, Alliances and Events
- Email: 642370@soas.ac.uk
Valeria Dessi
Wiring presence: women's rights and digital narratives among young women activists in Egypt (2005-present)
- Email: 273019@soas.ac.uk
Emily Jones
Feminist Cyborgs and Gods: International Law, Humanism and the limits of the Global Order
- Email: ej9@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
Eleanor Tiplady Higgs
Narrating Christianity, Living ‘Fulfilled Lives’: The Young Women’s Christian Association in Kenya, 1912-2012.
- Email: 294419@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
The Kurdish Women's Movement in Rojava: Grassroots Activism, Political Organisation and Armed Resistance
- Email: i_kaeser@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
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
Ján Michalko
Female Political Elites as an Empowerment Resource: An Exploration of the ‘Role Model Effect’ in South Africa
- Email: jan_michalko@soas.ac.uk
S. Paniz Musawi Natanzi
Young Women’s Visual Knowledge Production in Kabul: Making Contemporary Art in Times of On-going Insecurities
- Email: sm149@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
Nydia A. Swaby
Becoming Black: gender and the meanings of blackness in contemporary Britain
- Email: nydia_swaby@soas.ac.uk
Anisha Thomas
Questions of Consent and Coercion: Understanding Sexual Assault Trials in India
- Email: 619106@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:
2016
- Exile from Exile: The Representation of Cultural Memory in Literary Texts by Exiled Iranian Jewish Women
- Body and Sexuality: Narratives of two generations of Iranian women
- 'Mirror on the wall, am I desirable at all?' Sex, pleasures and the market in postcolonial Italy
- Female Disengagement from the Labour Market in Beirut: Structures, Strategies and Subjectivities
2015
- Iranian Feminisms: Transnational connectivities between homes and diasporas
- Women’s Rights in Postcolonial States: A case study of the Institution of Wilaya over women in Jordan and Yemen
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Intersections of Religion, Nation, and Gender: Faith Based Responses to the Reproductive Health Bill in the Philippines
- Occupational Hazard or Patriarchal Entitlement? : Feminist Analysis of the Dynamics of Violence in Ethiopian Sex Work
2014
- Active (Dis)engagement: The Gendered Production of Political Apathy in Israel
- In Whose Interests? The Politics of Gender Equality in Jordan
- Guerrilla Girls: Rebellious Women of the Japanese 1960s-1970s 'Pinky Violence' Films
2013
- Exile from Exile: The Representation of Cultural Memory in Literary Texts by Exiled Iranian Jewish Women